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...Born and his colleagues at the University of Lübeck in Germany published a clever study that shows why sleeping on a problem often brings such good results. They asked 106 test subjects to transform a string of numbers into a different string of numbers, using a simple but tedious mathematical equation. Unbeknownst to the study volunteers, there was a hidden trick to the calculations that could cut their response time dramatically. A good night's sleep between practice sessions more than doubled--from 23% to 59%--the probability that participants caught on to the trick. In other words, sleep...
There is something like ashy molasses in Ray Charles’ voice: dripping syrupy sweet with southern charm yet charged with gritty, unhewn candor, it resonates with a sense of immediacy and emotional clarity that is nothing short of divine. And yet somehow, even after 17 tedious years of development, Ray, based on Charles’ life, does not muster any semblance of the splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques...
Jury members seemed tired and a few snoozed through some of the more tedious testimony yesterday, the last day of a three-day trial. Shleifer has looked calm throughout the trial, laughing and patting his defense team on the back during recesses...
Last weekend I promised myself that I would be productive. With my thesis due in less than two weeks, I wanted nothing more than to start revising. Just one problem: I hadn’t started writing. Months of tedious data collection were finally over, but I couldn’t bring myself to analyze or write up the findings. Rather than reminding myself how to conduct “Tukey contrasts” and other nasty statistical tricks, I fled my dorm room for warmer pastures...
Thanks, in part, to lingering distaste from a swing to California last week—Harvard beat San Jose St. but folded late in a game against USC—the Crimson turned on the weekend intensity despite some tedious circumstances...