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Harvard instruments helped detect a massive solar flare, which erupted from the sun yesterday afternoon and may cause power outages and interfere with satellite communications, including purchases with credit cards and cell phones...
Astrophysicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) shut down instruments they maintain aboard NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft for several hours yesterday in order to avoid damage from the resulting radiation...
...coincidentally, banished from the New SAT. But some academics are now offering an elegy for the analogy: "Analogical thinking is at the very foundation of how we make use of old knowledge to understand new things," says Lohman. "It may take a long time to understand how our solar system is set up, but if someone could use that information to help you understand the structure of an atom, it speeds the process up...When we learn, we have to do this again and again. Students listen to a lecture and say, 'How did that relate to what I know...
...missed you,” it lacks some of the subtlety of other presidents’ playful poems—one is reminded of John Quincy Adams’ (Class of 1787) translations of Horace (“What though he plough the billowy deep/ By lunar light, or solar./ Meet the resistless Simoon’s sweep,/ Or iceberg circumpolar.”)—still, it is good to know that our president has some poetry in him. Making the assumption that, like most of his output, the president’s poetry is overseen...
Leith J. Sharp, director of HGCI, called the installation of the solar panel system “one of our most strategically important projects because renewable energy is such an important and challenging area to get the university to look toward...