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Just one day before Al Gore won his Nobel Prize, a British high court made an inconvenient ruling. Judge Michael Burton said An Inconvenient Truth could be shown in schools only if teachers added a disclaimer saying the film's facts are disputed. Burton found nine "significant errors," among them...
...midtown Manhattan earlier this month. The participants were the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, known for smart, stylish and slightly silly movies like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who won the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. If it were a reality show it would be called Eccentric Genius Island...
Last Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee rightly recognized the global significance of climate change when it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore ’69 and the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations-established committee of scientists conducting research on climate change. We hope the spotlight of the award will give activists the momentum they need to finally catalyze the world into actively combating climate change. While awareness of the critical issue of climate change has grown over the last several years, some in the United States and the world at large?...
Three Harvard graduates won the Nobel prize in economics on Monday for their work using game theory to explain the best method for allocating resources. The prize committee honored the trio of Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin ’72, and Roger B. Myerson ’73 for “having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.” Myerson and Maskin are graduates of the College, and all three hold degrees from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Maskin and Myerson met during their undergraduate years at Harvard, where they concentrated in mathematics...
...shared comical anecdotes about students who came to office hours, recalling one pupil whom Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue nicknamed “The Ocean” for his relentless stream of questions. 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, hastened to add that students don’t need to come in with a specific question or share some fascinating talent. “Just normal people are fun, too,” she said. Professors also said that the semiannual faculty dinners are often too formal...