Word: ultra
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...far.Girl Talk: “Night Ripper”Mashups have been enjoying success over the last few years, but most people have considered them novelties; if they were art, they were of the moustache-on-Mona-Lisa variety. Enter “Night Ripper,” an ultra-tight 40 minute survey of pop music, 5 seconds at a time. Restlessly shifting beats, melodies, and vocals, there are enough ideas here to create hours and hours of lesser music. Instead, 250-some samples are fired off as quickly as they can be identified, giving the effect that every...
...forces, he said that the effects of string theory could be observed more directly through experimentation, which would put an end to physicists’ studying forces at shorter and shorter distances. “The fundamental theory that unifies gravity with everything else would not take place at ultra short distances but right above our heads,” he said. He added that there may be gigantic extra dimensions of space if this is in fact true. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard M. Georgi ’68 wrote in an e-mail that Arkani-Hamed?...
...have no problem finding the perfect class to make all your academic dreams come true. At this point, you must be wondering—so what is this freshman seminar business all about anyway? The answer, it turns out, can vary depending on what you take. In its ultra-specific description, the Freshman Seminar Program states that students work with faculty members “on a variety of selected topics in a variety of ways.” So, basically, this means that Profs can teach about whatever interests them, from popular Japanese legends...
...professor of the ultra-popular Government 1540, “The American Presidency,” structures his one-and-a-half hour lectures around them. The three sources of a president’s bargaining power. The five levels of political appointees. The three approaches to presidential decision making...
...women dressed as scarved Kazakh peasants. When the film broke down at the start of its run, Baron Cohen, director Larry Charles and visiting fireman Michael Moore passed the time by answering questions. The screening was eventually postponed until the following night, leading to some grumbles from the normally ultra-placid TIFF audience - although the headline on Defamer.com, "Toronto Film Festival Projectionist Slain By Angry Borat Fans," was a slight exaggeration...