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...using e-mail with the National Day of Unplugging people required 24 e-mails, two phone calls and one Facebook friendship acceptance. The day before I turned off, I talked to the guy behind the idea, Dan Rollman, who is also the founder of the Universal Record Data Base, the online competitor to Guinness World Records. He came up with unplugging as a way of respecting the Sabbath, without all the praying and not going to parties. Rollman, apparently, is working on a record for the most new ways to piss off the Creator. About 20 minutes into our conversation...
Some scientists called it the highlight of their career. On March 30, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smashed together two proton beams. Each was moving with an energy equivalent to 3.5 trillion electron volts, for a combined 7 trillion--a new world-record energy level. The victory was a long time coming for CERN, Europe's nuclear-research group, which for 15 years has pumped $10 billion into the setback-plagued project. The experiments are expected to reveal much about the nature of the universe, including other dimensions, dark matter and the Higgs boson, the particle that could explain...
Harvard prides itself on a vast and generous financial aid program. According to Harvard College’s Financial Aid Office, Harvard “[awards] a record-breaking $145 million in need-based scholarship assistance to almost 60 percent of our students.” Sounds pretty good, right? An all-encompassing financial aid package awarded to every student who demonstrates financial need. Wrong. Like many other exalted institutions, Harvard only offers the illusion of financial security. In fact, Harvard is discriminating against the most vulnerable members of its community: The mentally...
With only three games remaining and a 1-2 record in conference play, the Crimson must likely win out if it hopes to earn an NCAA tournament berth...
...first of two doubleheaders this weekend, Harvard softball split games with Penn (11-14, 6-2 Ivy) on Saturday, losing a well-contested 5-4 game in the nightcap after pummeling the Quakers—who entered the matchup with an undefeated record in Ivy League play—10-0 in the opener...