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...atoms may seem minuscule--especially if they exist for only fractions of a second--but they can have huge implications. The recent announcement that Russian and American scientists finally managed to produce a tiny bit of element 117 by firing calcium atoms (element 20) at berkelium (element 97) fills in a missing spot on the periodic table. When the results are confirmed, "ununseptium" will get a catchier moniker and occupy the square between 116 and 118--elements that also await proper names from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry...
...native of small-town Illinois and an alumna of the Second City improv comedy troupe (where she shared the stage with The Office's Steve Carell, with whom she would later appear in 2005's The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Lynch always wanted to act and recalls few moments of doubt that she'd make it. That took some doing, considering that by 1999 she was 38 and had spent seven years in L.A. on a "relentless" but only marginally fruitful quest for comedy, acting and singing gigs. But that spring, she ran into Christopher Guest in a local restaurant...
...second idea further complicates the ideological position of traditional econometricians by borrowing heavily from physicist Werner Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty. If the observer adds an element of uncertainty by the mere fact of observing, then fully determined prediction is not a matter of how much data one can gather. Rather, it is “computationally intractable,” meaning that if there were an answer, the amount of data required to compute it is beyond not only our current methods, but anything we could ever achieve—we just cannot expect computers to model...
...Real Madrid’s turn to host FC Barcelona for their second meeting of the season. The rivalry between the two teams is one of the oldest in the world, only a year younger than the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox but just as fierce, if not more...
Penn and Yale seem to pose the greatest threats to Harvard’s quest for a three-peat. The two rivals finished second and third, respectively, at the Crimson’s tournament last weekend—the Roar-EE Invitational—where all the Ivy teams competed except Cornell, which does not have a varsity women’s golf team. The Quakers finished ten strokes off Harvard’s winning score, while the Bulldogs were five behind Penn. Yale fell to the Crimson by only two strokes at last year’s Ivy Championships...