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...fall of her first year, and Sakis says he never signed up or attended a meeting at all. Both students requested in the past that their names be removed; Sakis actually threatened to sue for libel if his wasn't. Apparently, the Peninsula people are sensitive enough to external stimuli to heed this kind of threat because Sakis's name is blacked out in magic marker in all distributed copies of the last Peninsula. Folch's name still appears, however, as does that of Christopher J. Russo '97 who said he has not been involved with the publication for more...
...trying to cope with this mishmash of stimuli, people could react in two ways. They could throw up their hands and withdraw even further into their own interests. Or they could turn once again to traditional news outlets, which help put the chaos in some kind of intelligent order. Just how all this will play out--for our understanding of the world around us, for our sense of community, and for the future of journalistic enterprises like the one you're reading--will be one of the big stories of the next decade. It might even make the evening news...
...fact, part of the natural life cycle of such rituals. "African traditions are not vanishing," says Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum of Natural History. "They are changing. Even ceremonies that have been performed for hundreds of years have changed throughout the centuries as people adapt to new stimuli and new ideas." Still, there is a poignancy in Beckwith and Fisher's images, a sense that we are seeing some of the last things on earth that have not been subsumed by 20th century Western culture. Jason Clay, co-founder of Cultural Survival Quarterly, uses the phrase salvage ethnography...
Gilbert's most recent research is in "affective forecasting," or how well people can predict their emotional reactions to future stimuli...
...though his idea is subtly different from Crick and Koch's. Llinas believes that the firing of neurons is not just simultaneous but also coordinated. Using a highly sensitive device called a magnetoencephalograph, which indirectly measures the electric currents within the brain, Llinas measured the electrical response to external stimuli (he used musical tones). What he observed was a series of perfectly timed oscillations. Says Llinas: "The electrical signal says that a whole lot of cells must be jumping up and down at the same time...