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...media into a frenzy. According to the dust jacket, the book is about 400 pages of hollow political drivel about bringing hope, happiness, and milk and honey back to America. The inside flap promises a few personal stories about Obama, but don’t expect anything too profound. As a potential presidential candidate, Obama has to keep things boring...
Some of the most dynamic, earnest, and thoughtful hardcore is being made right now—check out the Daniel Striped Tiger show at WHRB on Oct. 20 for proof. While the historic importance of 1980s hardcore to underground music is profound, the suggestion that the “Golden Days” are gone and that hardcore music will never be the same is characteristic of the punk rock orthodoxy’s attitude that is killing the scene today...
...into HDTV this may not sound like a big deal. In fact, aside from HBO and the networks, most of what I record airs only in standard definition: Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Food Network and a great chunk of the Discovery Channel?s best shows. But there?s a profound psychological difference between having access to most of my shows and all of my shows. Best of all, the Slingbox connects directly to an HD cable box as easily as it connects to any other video source. It doesn?t require anything as elusive as a CableCard, an over-promised...
...report advances as its underlying aim. Religion has always been important and certainly, recent events seem to have elevated its relevance to understanding human interaction in the modern world. Both before and after 9/11, religious ideas have been among the most potent social forces, animating decisions with profound global implications. But is religion, on its own terms, important enough that we should elevate it to a category of courses within our program of general education? We think not. Understanding religion is an enterprise to a very large degree intertwined with a more general understanding of culture and history. The general...
...team discovered that a spring-like mechanism in the birds’ legs helped them keep their balance on uneven ground. The findings, published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have profound implications for developing legs for robots—and, eventually, more mobile prosthetic ones for humans...