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...with a depiction of what appears to be a large, awkward penguin standing opposite the TV; the bird in question is in fact a Great Auk, a majestic animal whose significance is grossly underrated by any confusion with a penguin. Its remarkably well-documented path to extinction is a point of great interest for Berry; history reveals that fishermen killed the last pair of Great Auk in 1844 on the island of Eldey off of Iceland. “It really is an icon of extinction, this beautiful, beautiful bird,” Berry says. “You know...
...certain point, I thought to myself: seriously, what the hell am I doing? I’m watching a TV show with my dad called “Rob and Big” in which two men fly a private jet to buy a baby bulldog that they outfit with bejewelled sweaters. This is ludicrous. I literally cannot believe this...
...student’s family claimed that the College should have recognized the roommate’s instability when she missed three exams and exhibited erratic behavior. The murder-suicide gained national attention and is often cited as a turning point for mental health services at Harvard. In the past two decades, there have been nearly 20 alleged suicides on Harvard’s campus...
There are those who still insist on rational expectations theories and EMH as the best predictors of human and market behavior. Put simply, their point is that mistakes may be made, but economics as a field can only be useful with mathematical modeling as the central pillar of analysis. Based on growing amounts of data, models may be incomplete, yet they are also perfectible. Such trust is essential, since it assumes that fully determined outcomes are possible and that more data can overcome any shortcoming...
...Georgiana Smyser. After dropping the first set 6-3, Lehman stormed back to win the second set by the same score. After taking a 3-2 lead in the third set, she lost the next four games to lose the set 6-3, bringing Dartmouth within a point of the Crimson...