Word: santas
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...fact, he is one of two spiritual leaders who now lay claim to the title. The other, Trinley Thaye Dorje, also recognized as the 17th Karmapa, visited the U.S. in 2003 and currently draws crowds of thousands when he speaks around the world. Suzan Garner, President, Siddhartha Foundation, SANTA BARBARA, CALIF...
That evolution hasn't occurred overnight. Thin film is a relatively young technology, and moving it from the laboratory to mass production has been tricky. Even some of the best-funded thin-film start-ups--like Miasolé, based in Santa Clara, Calif.--have been plagued with production disruptions. "Going from R&D to manufacturing is always fraught with gotchas," says Joseph Laia, Miasolé's CEO. "There are a whole series of things you didn't see because no one has really done this at scale." Since the industry is still small, for example, companies can't always count on easy...
...studying how systems that seem simple or complex may be just the opposite--and how that fact can expand our understanding of our world. "Ask me why I forgot my keys today, and the answer may be that something was on my mind," says neuroscientist Chris Wood of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico, a multidisciplinary think tank devoted to complexity theory. "Ask me about the calcium channels in my brain that drive remembering, and you're asking a much harder question...
When Venkatesh “Venky†Narayanamurti, outgoing dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), was dean of engineering at the University of California-Santa Barbara, he started getting frantic calls from a man named Jeremy Knowles.Knowles, then dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, then flew to California to meet Venky and get his advice about the new Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences.“When he went back to Harvard, I started getting more calls saying, ‘Come to Harvard and meet the president...
...more calls saying, ‘Come to Harvard and meet the president,’†Venky said in an interview last week. “I said, ‘I’m not looking for a job. I’m happy at Santa Barbara...