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Your selection of the best inventions of 2006 [Nov. 13] included the Science on a Sphere display and correctly credited the device as having been developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The article called NASA and Honeywell the "inventor," however, apparently referring to the 16-min. film Footprints, the latest visual display developed for this platform. We feel this is confusing. NOAA is the inventor and holder of the patent for Science on a Sphere. The technology is a significant and dramatic way to represent the world and aspects of the global environment. NOAA scientist Alexander MacDonald...
...light of these more pernicious incursions of the virtual sphere into real-world violence, maybe “joystick elbow” wasn’t so bad after...
...other disciplines. “The focus on music and musical experience radiates outwards into other areas of intellectual inquiry. For instance, I spend a few lectures talking about the importance of language in music. The place of music in daily life—that broaches the anthropological sphere. Then we talk about popular music as social commentary, and by the end of the class we will be talking appropriation of African music,” Agawu says.Students say successful bypass petitions allow them to study a wider range of topics in a given field than they could under...
...proactive element to the strip, Rees decided to donate proceeds from the GYWO book to the “Adopt-A-Minefield” campaign, which funds the removal of landmines around the world. THE WAR AT HOMERees does not limit his accusations of insincerity to the political sphere. He says that pop culture’s criticism of the Bush Administration is often equally hypocritical. He has harsh words for comedians who court an audience on both sides of a debate by saying, as he puts it, “we just offend everybody, we’re equal...
...relatively little in the UC, and even less so in national politics. Often, Asians and the American majority feel mutual discomfort with the weaving of Asians into the political and social fabric, and that discomfornt manifests itself in a reluctance for either side to get involved in the public sphere. An unfortunate consequence is that Asians then continue to be marginalized. “There’s not even an idea that Asian-American history is part of our history,” says Sanby Lee. “We’ve brought this up with faculty before...