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...author breaches that core, as Carol S. Dweck does in her contribution “Beliefs that Make Smart People Dumb,” the insights can be weighty and provocative. She posits that smart people behave stupidly precisely because they possess great intelligence. Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, is a prime example. The author’s creation was famous for debunking supernatural phenomenon by giving them rational explanations. Doyle himself, however was a disciple of the supernatural and a great believer in the fantastical apparitions revealed during seances. Though Holmes would argue that these visions were...
...have started his Crimson career with news stories, but he began writing when he joined FM. The mag and Amit were destined to be together. If he could give it hickeys, he would. An off-beat Sherlock Holmes, he is positively ingenious at tracking down leads, befriending sources and piecing evidence together. From the ex-gay movement on campus to the grade inflation, he has tackled touchy subjects with phenomenal aplomb. In his tight Hebrew T-shirts and edgy glasses, he’s the picture of an intellectual, hip writer and he lives up to the look, proving that...
...least high spirits, informed the choice and telling of the tales. Typically, the books selected for adaptation were melo-dramas and adventure stories: "Treasure Island," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Sherlock Holmes," "A Tale of Two Cities," "The Thirty-nine Steps," "The Man Who Was Thursday" - Great Lit Lite. It was very much a boy?s game (Moorhead and Arlene Francis got the rare women?s roles) and the Mercury actors would play it for all its worth, with a thrill in the voice and, one imagines, a smile in the eyes. The tone was nothing so easy or derisive...
...both teams adopted Sherlock Holmes' attitude: once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, has got to be true. The universe was indeed speeding up, suggesting that some sort of powerful antigravity force was at work, forcing the galaxies to fly apart even as ordinary gravity was trying to draw them together. "It helped a lot," says Riess, "that Saul's group was getting the same answer we were. When you have a strange result, you like to have company." Both groups announced their findings almost simultaneously, and the accelerating universe was named Discovery...
...cool by the year 2001, his seminal movie would have opened with 25 million ape-descendants clustered silently round an awe-inspiring and somewhat unreal auction house. Then to the tune of the Blue Danube, some bizarrely diverse items would shoot weightlessly through the ether - sterling silver Jaguar cars, Sherlock Holmes first editions, Xerox networked printers, a pair of Madonna concert tickets, an ostrich-egg incubator - moving at a rate of 5 million purchases per day. The climactic scene, perhaps, would feature astronaut Dave and arrogant computer HAL bidding furiously against each other for a highly collectible Beanie Baby...