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...producers and ABC this summer created The Lost Experience, an online game that delved into the Dharma Initiative, the secretive international project alluded to on the show. For more than four months, players hunted for clues in phony corporate websites, voice-mail messages and video clips online. The trick was to give away information that would tantalize hard-core fans but casual viewers wouldn't need. (Among the tidbits: Dharma stands for department of heuristics and research on material applications. See what you can do with that...
...pretty entertaining, but you can probably sleep through them (yes, they’re at noon) and still do fine. This course will also save you some serious cash: buy the sourcepack to memorize author names and prep for IDs, but otherwise some handy SparkNotes will do the trick on the rest of the syllabus. As anyone who’s not a neophyte to the Core, true academic challenge comes only by taking cross-listed departmental courses. Don’t be silly—skip them. But for the intellectually challenging amongst you, English...
...math are much less likely to be hostile to women than a little scared of them. Abandoning your sexuality at the door of the science center and developing a tolerance for inordinate amusement at phrases, such as “arbitrarily small balls,” usually does the trick. Ultimately, after battling the demons of Galois theory all night, you throw on a sweatshirt and head to class, and recognize the same post-all-nighter glassy eyes and shaking hands of the kid sitting next to you. Welcome to Mathematics...
First, a party trick. Freshmen: walk up to any group of five or more upperclassmen. Ask if any of them has taken Science B-62, “The Human Mind.” Step back and watch. Without fail, at least one of them will go apeshit...
...commentary would sound like - Stranger Than Fiction will strike a familiar chord. But mainly, Helm's script might have been confected to answer a Hollywood mogul's call, "Give me a Charlie Kaufman script, but make it adorable. The movie answers that call. With busy, doesn't-miss-a-trick direction by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and supporting performances, including Maggie Gyllenhaal's as the mandatory love interest, that underline all the appropriate gags and emotions, Stranger Than Fiction demands to be hugged. And comes close to getting...