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Still, legal experts say executives and others could end up getting bitten when they hit "Reply." Law professor Richard Painter of the University of Minnesota says e-mail will continue to be admitted as evidence and play an important role, particularly in white-collar prosecutions. "The fact of the matter is that people say things they shouldn't by e-mail," says Painter. "So as long as we continue to use e-mail, you are going to see it in cases...
This isolation of individual atoms is the first milestone in a project that was started about four years ago by assistant professor of physics Markus Greiner. Until now, scientists have only studied these atoms in bulk...
Only a Harvard professor could make eating chocolate look nerdy. David A. Edwards of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has recently developed Le Whif, an inhaler that dispenses miniature molecules of zero-calorie chocolate. Interesting? Yes. Useful? Not so much. Let’s face it—what’s the point of chocolate if it doesn’t come in a pint of J.P. Lick’s or a Chocolate Decadence cake from Finale? We think Professor Edwards should show his school spirit and pump out some other products we?...
...moment during a history lecture freshman spring, however, convinced me that this cynical take required revision. In the midst of an involved foray into the thickets of semiotic schemata, the professor paused to question the class: Did we know that the French founder of structural anthropology was—remarkably—still alive? A rapid bout of mental math assuring us that this was in fact possible, the statement made quite an impact. In a sea of Saussures and Sartres, the mausoleum of dead white men that European intellectual history inevitably erects, the bespectacled ethnographer’s continued...
...much different world. His great legacy is structuralism, the idea that universal patterns of thought—most notably, the desire to create myths—underlie all human activities. Though that take may not be in vogue today (even in the ‘70s, one Cambridge University professor wrote that “despite his immense prestige, the critics among his professional colleagues greatly outnumber the disciples”), there’s something to admire in the impulse to see everything as intimately connected. Not least among the view’s merits was the respect...