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...round. The event will include a celebrity judge and coverage by MTV, and the winning band will be profiled in Rolling Stone. As to the longer horizon, the managers of Veritas are always looking to expand their activities and to extend their contribution to Harvard’s music sphere. “We’re really trying to help put together a rock scene,” Spaniola said. “The game plan is just to continue to do this. Next November, we’ll sign a new group of artists and begin from there...
...another useful but slightly silly neologism: "weisure," Conley's term for our increasing tendency to work during leisure time, thanks to advances in portable personal technology. As Conley writes, there are fewer and fewer boundaries in the world of the middle- to upper-class professional. "Investment v. consumption; private sphere v. public space; price v. value; home v. office; leisure v. work; boss v. employee" - the walls between them all are increasingly blurring or falling altogether. We seem to work all the time because technology now makes it possible to do so. Constant motion - between jobs, between relationships, between multiple...
When he measured the force between a gold sphere and a gold plate in bromobenzene, he found that there was an attractive force, as expected...
...makes things trickier still is that not all attraction is equal. Some materials are drawn much more powerfully together than others - particularly on the nano (billionth of a meter) scale. And that difference can be exploited. In the Nature experiment, the research team began by placing a microscopically small sphere of gold on a glass surface. Gold and glass get along well enough and under the right circumstances will attract. But what they both like a whole lot more is a liquid called bromobenzene. When the researchers introduced a little bromobenzene to the other two materials, they both began drawing...
...you’ll need your employer’s vouching when applying for a work visa. If you want an informal job, then seek one in person after you arrive—just searching for a job itself can be insightful. This type of quest falls within the sphere of ordinary struggles, which unlike study, is the one of transformative cultural experiences...