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Field said the researchers’ techniques helped them differentiate between these two phenomena...
...astute and accessible. A winner of the highly selective John Bates Clark Medal for outstanding economists under the age of 40—an honor he shares with University President Lawrence H. Summers—and a professor of economics at Princeton, Krugman is adept at translating economic phenomena and jargon into everyday language. His columns are often constructed around metaphors that help readers understand not only what is going on in the markets, but how that connects to policies emanating from Washington. In his new book, Krugman admits that even he was surprised by how intertwined economics and politics...
OPPOSITES ATTRACT Starting with a simple glass tube that collected static charge when rubbed, above, and later using a hand-cranked machine built for the same purpose, left, Franklin meticulously experimented on the behavior of electricity. Perhaps his most important discovery was that electrical phenomena involve equal amounts of opposite charges. He used the terms positive and negative to describe them...
...toward sympathy and the will to help them. In the sciences, my sphere of expertise, the humanities play a crucial role of inspiration. Nobel Laureate Dudley Hershbach made us write poems in his Chem 10 class because he believes that the desire to learn about the root causes of phenomena in the world arises from our appreciation of the world’s beauty. Aesthetic sensibility even suffuses the judgment of merit of scientific theories; the highest compliment a scientist can bestow is to call a theory “beautiful” or to call a set of experiments...
Perhaps the demise of New Hampshire’s most famous (only?) landmark did cause the Big Green consternation. Perhaps one monumental collapse did, in fact, beget another. Or perhaps, natural phenomena notwithstanding, the Big Green was instead doomed by The Old Man on the Mound...