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...Lamont, don’t be afraid to toss that half-eaten bagel in the trash and mark your own territory. If someone comes back to claim the carrel, do not panic. Give them the call number for Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species?? (QH365.O2 1859a, fyi) and direct them to the part about “survival of the fittest.” Should this tactic fail, you can always just bare your teeth and go for the throat...
Maheshwary is one of a number of Harvard students who have discovered the new game outside of the T station, changing his species?? appearance, adding features he feels necessary for survival: claws, tail, wings, bigger biceps, bigger... well, anything. Soon enough, you’ll find yourself doing in a few hours what humans have done for thousands of years—building civilizations, waging wars, and attempting to dominate the forces of nature...
...this trick into the ground, as the audio equivalent of the gangsta stare becomes the stubborn old-man pause. If Cube and Chuck D were to get together again in 2008, the result would not be “Burn Hollywood Burn” or “Endangered Species?? but “Darn You Youngsters and Your Silly Snap Dances and Video Games.” “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” doesn’t come close to his thematically similar 1990 song “The Product...
...might expect from other scientists-turned-writers. Rather, it is an original, elegantly crafted, and inspiring investigation of the distinctly human obsession with all things musical.“What an odd thing it is,” Sacks writes, “to see an entire species??billions of people—playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music.’” Sacks tries to get to the root of this peculiarity by bringing us into the eccentric...
...have killed to inherit the stuffed bird, the one which would eventually inspire Harvard’s fake.A WORLDLY BIRDThe beginnings of the faux dodo are older than the University itself.According to Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Andrew Berry, Portuguese and Dutch traders colonized the species?? home island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean starting in 1598.The first extant report of a dodo was penned by an English diplomat named Thomas Herbert who sailed to Mauritius in 1629.Five years later, Herbert recounted, “Here only is generated the Dodo, which for shape and rareness...