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Apparently, some of our peers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a deal with the digital devil. In exchange for a free Windows Mobile “smartphone,” about 100 MIT students have agreed to allow researchers at the Media Lab to track their every digital move, including phone calls, e-mails, and text messages. The scientists at the Media Lab are not working for the students’ families, significant others, or the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, all of this data is being used to explore a new field known as collective intelligence...
...type freshman Nico Weiler’s name into Google, it won’t take you long to realize that he is a pole vaulter, now beginning his first season of track and field at Harvard. Then you’ll realize something else—he’s really good. “I think he’s going to be extremely successful,” Harvard Coach Will Thomas says. “The sky’s the limit for Nico as far as what he can accomplish this year and the next four...
...Businesses and analogous enterprises like government do right to favor candidates with proven abilities to succeed in challenging and competitive environments, and no doubt a proven track record of success at an elite university speaks highly of its holder. Education, however, traditionally has been conceived as its own end, the pursuit of truth and the acquisition of virtue—good in and of itself. Meritocrats inevitably see education as a means to an end, some merely instrumental good. Therefore, an excessive reliance on meritocracy at the cost of, say, strength of character or capacity for virtue, would seem...
Influenza is a disease of modernity: the faster people travel around the world, the easier it is for the virus to spread. There's no evidence of influenza among Native Americans until after Europeans visited North America. Pandemic outbreaks occur about once every hundred years, although it's hard track outbreaks that occurred before the 18th century due to incomplete medical records. The disease hits big cities first - because that's where people generally travel - and then spreads to surrounding areas. The last major pandemic occurred in 1918 when an Influenza A strain jumped from birds to humans and killed...
Everything appears to be on track this year; with somewhere around 146 million doses, Americans who choose to roll up their sleeves should remain largely sniffle-free this season. There's also a nasal spray, featuring a live but severely inhibited strand of the flu, that seems to work best on children. Information on how to receive the flu vaccine can be found on the CDC's website, www.cdc.gov...