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...horror-movie fraidy cat, know that most of the spooky stuff occurs in the bedroom, so - as with The Exorcist back in 1973 - you can steel yourself when the couple goes to sleep. Then too, you may not be scared at all by Paranormal Activity; but as you sit in a movie house, you should feel some fraternal pleasure in noticing that the folks around you are preparing or pretending to be scared. And you should be heartened to realize that - in an age of YouTube, iPod and DVR, where people get their visual media one by one - watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paranormal Activity: A Horror Phenomenon | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

Fortunately, the alternative to optimism is not pessimism, which can be equally delusional. What we need here is some realism, or the simple admission that, to paraphrase a bumper sticker, "stuff happens," including sometimes very, very bad stuff. We don't have to dwell incessantly on the worst-case scenarios - the metastasis, the market crash or global pandemic - but we do need to acknowledge that they could happen and prepare in the best way we can. Some will call this negative thinking, but the technical term is sobriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overrated Optimism: The Peril of Positive Thinking | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

Welcome to the weekend, dreary Harvard students.  Trying to put stuff of by a few more hours?  FlyBy's got your back with some quirky news from around the Ivies...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies Plus | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

Some choice selections from the tipster (in fairness to Noonan—how much did those unscrupulous folks at Gawker massage this stuff...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Peggy Noonan's Mind, Exposed Again | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...plan, scientists could find themselves no better off than before. “Even if it does work, if they turn it on and find nothing new at all—if they don’t find [the hitherto unseen] Higgs Boson, for example, or if they find stuff they expect to discoverer and nothing else, it is unclear what the future of that field is,” said Stubbs...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama and Huma N. Shah, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Physicists Wait for ‘Surprises’ of LHC | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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