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...domed ceilings of Eastern Europe's Orthodox churches. On display, instead, are fragments and everyday objects: Psalters, Bibles, chalices, icons, crucifixes, spoons, cups, coins and jewelry. It requires effort to appreciate the significance of such items. But with a bit of imagination, we can use them to help us understand the lives of our enigmatic predecessors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Exhibition Uncovers the Secrets of Byzantium | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...ridiculed for: There are things we know, things we know we don't know, and things we don't know we don't know. You're saying, basically, he's got a point. What I've done is made a very nice map of what it is that we understand and what it is that we don't understand. I've also made a decision-making protocol based on these two. There is a domain in which we can measure the unknown, provided the large deviation doesn't play a big role. What we have at this crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...them killed themselves, and economists are theorizing that he killed himself because he held the gun in a certain way. You require something vastly more structural. Let's go back to roots. Let's do real things. Let's have more transparency, fewer complicated products we don't understand. Let's generate economic growth by old traditional ways, let's favor technology companies, let's not favor all this financial bulls---. Because it was a Ponzi scheme, I don't know any other way to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

Although members of the PGP-10 were selected through a rigorous screening process, all other volunteers only need to pass an online examination to ensure that they understand the consequences of making their genetic information publicly available...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Prof's Personal Genome Project Reveals DNA Secrets | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...husband for the narcissistic, almost ghoulish American film producer Jeremy Prokosch, played by Jack Palance. Bardot, in a wide-brimmed hat and large black sunglasses that recall Jackie Kennedy, displays a cold yet alluring ambivalence toward her piggish new lover. They exchange brief words, casual affections, but barely understand one another—Bardot’s character speaks no English, Palance’s hardly any French. Godard cuts back and forth between the ill-conceived new couple and Camille’s jilted screenwriter husband Paul, played by Michel Piccoli, as he reads her farewell letter...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Wave But Old Fave | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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