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Cohen Kadosh took five volunteers with normal math abilities through more than 500 trials. In an experiment published this month in Current Biology, he targeted different regions of the test subjects' brains with magnetic pulses while they performed number-recognition problems. A normal subject, when asked to identify whether a 2 or a 4 is written in larger text, will be a split-second faster on those occasions that the 4 is printed bigger. Normal subjects process that 4 is a bigger quantity than 2, and that information aids their pick - just as number recognition slows them down slightly when...
...ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID...Despite the opportunities that blogging gave them to earn their writing gigs, many Harvard bloggers discuss the understanding gap between the younger e-generation and their elder counterparts. Often this misunderstanding leads to a disconnect between what employers understand about blogging and the actual subject matter that the Harvard bloggers are told to cover. Theodore B. Bressman ’06, who now writes for Sports Illustrated on Campus and hopes to write for television, provides an egregious example of the phenomenon.Along with former Crimson editor Christopher Schonberger ’06, he wrote the popular blog...
...made in the spirit of universality, eschewing the flash-in-the-pan noise of Radiohead’s “OK Computer” or the ambitious, minor rapper known as Jay-Z. Stephan Jenkins, 3EB’s frontman, limns accessible pop music around such depressing subject matter as suicide and methamphetamine abuse. Who better to head up our spring celebration? So relax, Class of ’97, and drink in the best rock since Ace of Base’s “The Sign” first hit the charts. The top?...
...literature that one must read in order to be cultured is daunting and unrealistic.Bayard provides a number of tips for talking about the canon without reading it: generalize about the author, use the book to talk about your personal experiences, or (a devastatingly original move) try to change the subject. But I can’t escape the feeling that somewhere here is a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” episode waiting to happen.Some form of bullshitting about books will always be unavoidable, as it is in any form of small talk. And Bayard’s idea...
...very experiential,” Yellin says.Robbins’ own documentary-making ethic centered on staying true to the subjects’ perspectives. “I think if you look at a person like Michael Moore, those are people who are interested in a type of subject and are essentially choosing subjects. For me, they’re making it in the opposite direction,” he says.Initially, Robbins loathed scenario re-creation, but he soon changed his mind: “Once I had material, there was no other...