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...Many non-Harvard students participated, including seventh-grader David I. Gaitsgory and his mom. Even Harvard’s rival for the weekend was represented, with a number of Yalies joining in. But for some unfortunate thrill-seekers, the fun was dampened a bit by poor signal reception. “We’re not only dancing to music people can’t hear, we’re dancing to music that doesn’t exist,” says Winifred A. Garet ’10. The reception improved as the night went...
...inner clotheshorse. Looking for new things to wear not only gave her something to do other than sitting around thinking about the past but also gave her the chance to do something that had no connection to her years with Jeff. "My enthusiasm for cool clothes seemed to signal that I was entering a new era of my life," she says...
...about privatizing Social Security." Andrew Biggs Two days after the midterms, Bush nominated Biggs for deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration. As a think-tank scholar, he pushed hard for private accounts. He kept mum as a lower-level Social Security bureaucrat, but Biggs' promotion sends a clear signal that Administration officials might not be as flexible as they are saying...
This eyewear, developed by M.I.T.'s Media Laboratory, has a tiny name-storage device that picks up the identification signal cell phones emit and then searches its database to see if a name matches. A miniprojector on the stem flashes the name of the friend or relative encountered on the glass lens for one two-hundredth of a second--so fast it isn't noticeable, yet lab tests have shown the subliminal prompt is enough to improve name recall by 50%. In the prototype, wearers must carry a battery wired to the glasses, but eventually a wireless system will...
...until a fraction of a second later that the higher regions of the brain get the signal and begin to sort out whether the danger is real. But that fraction of a second causes us to experience the fear far more vividly than we do the rational response--an advantage that doesn't disappear with time. The brain is wired in such a way that nerve signals travel more readily from the amygdala to the upper regions than from the upper regions back down. Setting off your internal alarm is quite easy, but shutting it down takes some doing...