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...following Gray, Keohane brings a resume replete with higher education administrative experience. In addition to heading two major universities, she has chaired Stanford University’s faculty senate and a Harvard Board of Overseers visiting committee...
...served on the faculty at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania in addition to her tenures at Stanford, Wellesley and Duke. Keohane has written widely on education, political philosophy and feminism...
...While Harvard students are freezing their buns off, Stanford students are getting a tan,” says Brian S. Gillis ’07, founder of Students for the Relocation of Harvard to California. “Our plan is to relocate every teacher, building, and student from Harvard to some location in California...
Last year a Stanford theorist named Shamit Kachru set out with some colleagues to calculate just how many different universes one particular version of string theory could produce. The number he came up with was a 1 followed by something like 100 zeros--roughly a hundred billion billion times the number of atoms in our universe. It was an answer that didn't please anyone. Says Max Tegmark, a theorist at the University of Pennsylvania: "People have tried very hard to get rid of these multiple universes and failed. They just don't like the concept; they think...
...anthropic principle still makes many scientists uncomfortable--and not just because it gives comfort to theologians. That discomfort, says Stanford theorist Leonard Susskind, is all to the good. "In the end," he observes, "it doesn't matter whether the anthropic principle makes us happy. What matters is whether it's true"--that is, whether cosmic numbers really are as arbitrary as they seem. If they aren't, physics may eventually succeed in explaining many features of our world that seem so puzzling today. And if the anthropic principle is true? Well, then, says Aguirre, "the universe will seem even more...