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...served on the House Energy and the Health subcommittees. Ryan H. Budish, a second year student at HLS, applauded Brown’s message on economic revitalization in Ohio and praised him as “a leader who is honest and has convictions.” Lauren J. Popper, also an HLS student, said Brown was a politician who knows what he stands for. “He knows why he is in politics and it is because he knows how government can help his state and community,” she said...
...course, the cost of having an intellectually-engaged president is that occasionally he will emit ideas that are politically offensive or, in some cases, just plain wrong. After all, as Karl Popper taught us, providing refutable hypotheses is at the very core of scientific progress. I would hesitate to count the number of incorrect hypotheses that I come up with in the course of a year. Luckily, I have colleagues and students who point out my errors. If we are to have a scholar-president, we must treat his false hypotheses in the same way that we treat the false...
...Marks is used to the looks of dismay she gets from guests when she offers them a cup of coffee and then pulls out a stash of grayish-green unroasted coffee beans. "People think I'm nuts at first," she says. Then she roasts the beans in a popcorn popper. Says Marks: "Afterward they always admit that they've never had a better cup of coffee." Marks is one of a small but increasing number of coffee drinkers for whom fresh ground isn't fresh enough--so they roast the beans themselves...
Equipment comes in many variations. You can use a pan or a popcorn popper (free, if you already own one) or get a specialty roaster ($100 to $200). The higher-tech options allow for finer control and produce less smoke. But the lower-tech choices create a sort of DIY pride among enthusiasts and can be tweaked for more control. Home-roasting guru Jim Schulman, who conducts his own coffee-tasting sessions in Chicago, uses a '70s-era popcorn popper that he has modified extensively with a blueprint he got online from some fellow roasters who happened to be engineers...
...Danny J. Popper ’06, a computer science concentrator eating dinner at Hillel yesterday, said that pop culture Kabbalah is “a New Age thing for Britney Spears and Madonna. I honestly doubt that it’s the real thing...