Word: pickings
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When Oprah sets out to do something, she does it with zeal - whether that means attaching her name to a hit Broadway musical (The Color Purple), storming the campaign trail on behalf of her favorite presidential candidate or launching the most influential book club in publishing history (her latest pick, Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them, was shipped to bookstores just last week). So when even the hint of a possible Oprah Winfrey Film Club arose at this year's Toronto Film Festival, reporters took note. "A film club," the TV icon said in response...
...cognitive scientist Josef Topál of the Research Institute for Psychology in Hungary recently ran an experiment to study how 10-month-old babies pay attention to people. The scientists put a toy under one of two cups and then let the children choose which cup to pick up. The children, of course, picked the right cup--no surprise since they saw the toy being hidden. Topál and his colleagues repeated the trial several times, always hiding the toy under the same cup, until finally they hid it under the other one. Despite the evidence of their eyes...
...investigate why the kids made this counterintuitive mistake, the scientists rigged the cups to wires and then lowered them over the toy. Without the distraction of a human being, the babies were far more likely to pick the right cup. Small children, it seems, are hardwired to pay such close attention to people that they disregard their other observations. Topál and his colleagues ran the same experiment on dogs--and the results were the same. When they administered the test to wolves, however, the animals did not make the mistake the babies and dogs did. They relied on their...
...offense took over—led by three-time captain and two-time Patriot League Player of the Year Dominic Randolph—the momentum instantly shifted over to the home team. Though Holy Cross was unable to get anything done in its opening possession, Randolph showed he could pick apart the Crimson defense.“They’re a tough offense,†captain Carl Ehrlich said. “We knew it was a tough offense coming in.â€And though Harvard controlled the clock in the first possession, the Crimson ended...
...Smile Project. “I’ve left a lot in Harvard Square. It’s probably my favorite spot,†he says. “It’s fun to leave them around schools because students don’t hesitate to pick up things for free,†Bataclan says. “I find that non-college students, or older people, are a little more cynical. They think it’s tied into some kind of product placement.†“I get shy when people...