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...understand why people are excited about this phenomenon. However, as the migration to high-definition TVs and cable boxes speeds up, these products must evolve fast. I made the mistake of trying to play an HD broadcast, and everything froze. It's a paradox, because the earliest of adopters probably already watch a lot of HDTV. To put it bluntly: if you're recording the current season of Sopranos or 24 on a high-def cable DVR, you'll have to record it simultaneously in standard definition to watch it on Sony's LocationFree TV or the snazzier Slingbox from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadget Showdown: Sling Media Slingbox vs. Sony LocationFree TV | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

Goldman based her English and American Literature and Language senior thesis on her behind-the-scenes experiences. She examined a 19th-century British phenomenon called toy theatre, in which children could construct miniature theaters and put on productions in their own homes. One show she analyzed, “Alice in Wonderland,” led to her latest production, coming out this spring in the Loeb...

Author: By Pamela T. Freed, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Melissa E. Goldman '06 | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...smarter than many Harvard students was dissected at length on the site, complete with a reference to a tiger in the Leverett Junior Common Room. As far as I can tell this beast has never been sighted, but one can assume only an insider could know of such a phenomenon...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: .45 CALEBER: Criticism More Science Than Art | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

With the appearance of dog-friendly legislation, however, this cultural phenomenon has overstepped its place. Typically, dietary regulation is justified either for public health concerns or on account of the would-be-meal’s danger of extinction. As to the former, it is true that animals higher up the food chain are more hazardous to eat—since they tend to ingest and accumulate more chemicals—but dog meat is no more dangerous than shellfish and hardly merits its own special ban. And as for the latter, as any Parisian will tell you, the world?...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Man’s Best Stir-Fry | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...months ago in these pages, Leon Neyfakh dissected the phenomenon of Harvard’s uber-popular feel-good course, Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology.” Now, with the semester coming to close, FM follows up with the big question: are Positive Psych kids any happier? Students say they are flying high after spending a semester learning techniques for positive living—strategies for dealing with procrastination, for coping with stressful situations, and for stepping out of their comfort zones—with Lecturer on Psychology Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96, affectionately...

Author: By Mathieu D. S. Bouchard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Still Psyched: Students Yet to Come Down From Self-Help High | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

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