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...Small World Coffee, all of that is beyond the immediate point, which seems to be nothing more than getting a morning fix of one caffeinated drink or another before setting off to conquer the intellectual challenges waiting at the university just up the street. "A mathematician," the legendary number theorist Paul Erdos used to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." Organic chemistry, neuroscience, psychology and pretty much universal experience suggest that he probably was on to something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring IQ Points by the Cupful | 1/10/2006 | See Source »

Andrew Strominger, professor of physics at Harvard and a string theorist, says he was impressed by the quality of the book...

Author: By Adrian J. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Supersymmetry and Parallel Dimensions | 1/6/2006 | See Source »

...Randall was the first tenured woman in the physics department of Princeton University and the first female theorist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the Boston Herald. In 2001, Randall returned to Harvard where she became the third woman to get tenure in physics, according to the Times...

Author: By Adrian J. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Supersymmetry and Parallel Dimensions | 1/6/2006 | See Source »

Born the son of an oil executive in Texas in 1943, Malick entered Harvard as a first-year in 1961, living in Matthews. He moved into Adams the following year, and concentrated in Philosophy under Professor Emeritus and respected film theorist Stanley Cavell, who provoked Malick’s interest in German philosopher Martin Heidegger...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumni Watch: Terrence Malick '65 | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...world’s premier post-colonial literary theorist, Bhabha loves to entertain guests and ideas. He makes a mean shrimp with mint coriander and mango and duck with wild mushrooms for his soirees. And, he notes, “Harvard has a lot of great people to entertain...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 5: The Best Dinner Parties | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

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