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What caused the outburst of meteorological fury? This time not much of the blame goes to the usual suspect, El Ni??o, which has produced only a slight warming of the tropical Pacific since August. A more significant culprit, say meteorologists, is a less well-known phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), named after the pair of scientists--Roland Madden and Paul Julian--who discovered it in 1971. The MJO is a globe-girdling disturbance that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic...
Campus shuttle service continued with two rather than four buses, but with slight route detours. Service to the Quad was as normal while the Mather/Peabody Terrace route was diverted to Leverett House due to unplowed roads...
...make a long story short, motivational differences can be large...but cognitive differences are tiny: far too small to account for the enormous gap between the proportion of capable female students, on one hard, and of female professors, on the other. For example, there’s a slight tendency for girls to have higher verbal skills than boys, but we’d be crazy to take this small difference into account in hiring English professors. The effects are so small that knowing the gender of a candidate scholar of Elizabethan theatre will tell us next to nothing about...
...rest of the statistics were eerily similar, as both squads shot 33.3 percent from the field and each hit six trifectas. Dartmouth had a slight edge in the rebounding department—the fifth straight game that Harvard has been outrebounded—pulling down 39 boards to the Crimson?...
Said Donato with a slight smile, “We like the prospect at getting another shot at these guys...