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...credentials are in the respectable field of experimental psychology, but the project he has been working on since 1998 would make plenty of scientists cringe. Nelson heads the Global Consciousness Project, which is based on the theory that emotionally charged world events will cause blips in the output of random-number generators scattered around the globe. He and his colleagues believe they have already documented that effect in the aftermath of Princess Di's death, the 9/11 attacks and, more benignly, in the wave of international optimism that seems to settle over the world each New Year...
...Sally Farber, the protagonist of Lisa Grunwald's novel Whatever Makes You Happy (Random House; 238 pages), notes, quarrels about what anger means, or sadness, or envy. "But happiness is-it's-a shimmer." Farber, 40, has had no trouble writing books on The History of Anger, The History of Jealousy and even The History of Love, but she's hung up on writing the biography of happiness. Two kids running into the bedroom "like bright, sharp arrows," a "tidy, perfect, kitchen drawer" of a husband plus a book contract, and still, for Sally, happiness lies around the corner...
...Xbox 360 version, Call of Duty 2, the game play is a startling leap forward. You can run around at random like the battle-panicked infantryman you are, surrounded by hundreds of your fully realized, equally panicked brothers in arms. You can accomplish your goals (or die trying) in whatever order seems expedient: no more invisible barriers. Clouds of dust and smoke float up and block the sun, interfering with the ambient light--war is finally getting its fog. The chaos is astonishingly visceral: you're Joe Grunt, playing your little part in vast events that are beyond your puny...
...have spent countless hours wandering amongst the tables, catching up with friends and meeting new ones. For a long time, I took this for granted and resented Annenberg. But looking back I have realized that most of my best memories from this year involve chatting about some random topic over barely-edible food with a group of the most interesting people I have ever met. Forget the dead white men adorning the walls—my friends are what bring me back to the ‘Berg every...
Yesterday, a random survey taken by The Crimson revealed that of 15 courses containing 150 people or more, only one, Biological Sciences 50, had a response rate of 60 percent or more...