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...other student, I would have advised her that combining Maya 3D digital animation with hand drawing and puppetry was way too ambitious. But Lily has a steely determination and a work ethic that is exceptional even for Harvard, and I am delighted to see that I was right to trust her,” says Lingford. Fang’s thesis “Shapeshifter,” now in the final stages of production, is a mixed-media film about a village of plaster-and-wire puppets who encounter a two-dimensional genie...

Author: By Lauren B. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lillian Fang ’10 | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

Lord does not see this move as a step down from her previous work. “To sound utterly cliché about it, you have to trust what you’re interested in,” she says...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medalist | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...takes on a trust from others, one takes responsibility,” McDowell said. “One shouldn’t take that politely...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Philosopher Lectures on Human Responsibility | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...human and market behavior. Put simply, their point is that mistakes may be made, but economics as a field can only be useful with mathematical modeling as the central pillar of analysis. Based on growing amounts of data, models may be incomplete, yet they are also perfectible. Such trust is essential, since it assumes that fully determined outcomes are possible and that more data can overcome any shortcoming...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Volcanic Ash Allowing | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

Considering these essential shortcomings, what is most surprising is that we still trust our models so much. The fact that the mirage of certainty has crept from economics into other disciplines is obvious enough: A famous Harvard government professor often complains that no data-heavy, model-driven graduate student gets a good job in political science these days. Perhaps more importantly, such flawed assumptions have grounded endless flights this week. Just yesterday, EU regulators acknowledged they should have conducted more actual tests rather than outright banning European flights for five days. The EU director general for transport, Matthias Ruete, admitted...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Volcanic Ash Allowing | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

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