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...Under the Black Flag,” David Cordingly’s fantastic account of pirates and piracy, will not only keep any casual reader interested, but also provide its larger-than-life subject with a proper, scholarly history. This easy read will change anyone’s attitude from the safe, conservative “Pirates are sweet” to the knowledgeable, reflective “Hey, pirates actually were quite sweet...
Being a test subject requires sacrifices, including boredom (I once spent an hour staring at a computer monitor full of Ls to find a solitary T) and time that would otherwise be spent stalking the Facebook.com news feeds of my crushes. So why do I do it? For the satisfaction, silly—the satisfaction of knowing that I am a part of something larger than myself. Which really means that I’m in it for the money, just like all the other study subject whores who trek to the ninth floor of William James Hall...
...ranks of children growing up without brothers and sisters will develop. Decades of expert advice cast these singletons as problem citizens - solipsists with difficulty forming relationships. Now the balance of scientific opinion is swinging away from that idea. Professor Toni Falbo of the University of Texas has researched the subject for 30 years and, she says, found no disadvantages to children without siblings. That's because what counts is not a traditional family structure but the opportunity to form relationships with adults and contemporaries. "Parent and peer contact can compensate for the lack of siblings," says Falbo. Parents of only...
...Cage's noteless musical composition 4'33", both of which, like the Death Star, figure in Huyghe's work. By calling these glowing white signs Disclaimers, the artist is saying that, in spite of copyright rules, no one really owns these works. They are part of our shared culture, subject to limitless reinterpretation...
College campuses in Boston are particularly subject to risk factors because they are highly-frequented areas, says a spokesman for Terminix...