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...Parilo said Wednesday. “I thought it would be fun to have my family on Family Feud. This is a little twisted, but still fun.” The Harvard team will compete against seven other universities for a minimum prize of $120,000. USC, UCLA, Caltech, The Ohio State University, University of Notre Dame, University of Michigan and The University of Texas at Austin are also fielding teams. While the team has plenty of enthusiasm, they’re just getting to know each other—they met as a team for the first time Wednesday...
...honored a group of distinguished scientists for their research relating to the fertility cycle of lap dancers, the moral consideration of plants, and the spontaneous knotting of string. Last night in Sanders Theatre, the unusual met with the academic at the “Eighteenth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.” The ceremony—hosted by the scientific humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research”—bestowed awards in 10 different categories of original research, from nutrition to archaeology. In past years, researchers have been awarded Ig Nobels...
...story, "IOP Panel Debates Economic Turmoil," reported that The New York Times reporter on the panel, Diana B. Henriques, is a Pulitzer Prize winner. In fact, she has never won the prize, but has been a finalist...
With the announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature expected in the coming days, many literary hopefuls are sure to be on the edges of their seats as American authors like Philip Roth, John Updike ’54, and Joyce Carol Oates are considered for the prize. But a comment made on Tuesday by a senior member of the Swedish Academy—the body that bestows the Nobel Prize—that American literature is too self-absorbed might throw cold water on the hopes that an American author will bring home the prize. In an interview with...
...attest, it's almost impossible to get confidence right. Too timid and you're a pushover. Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley. Or Michelle, my best friend until 9th grade, after she won that debating prize and got cocky...