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DESIGN TOUCHSTONE "Ultimately, you can't really convert people unless they like the way the products look," he says. So Onysko worked with Ideo, a design firm based in Palo Alto, Calif., to give mass appeal to the organic lifestyle. Result: a great-looking soap box made of 100% postconsumer materials. "You can throw it in your yard, and it will just melt away," says Onysko...
...food decreases. Eating floor food of unknown origin sounds at least unpleasant and probably unhealthy to me. [But n]o, I think food picks up as many germs/debris in 0.1 sec as it does in 5 sec or 50 sec or 500 sec.” “Unless you are in a place where serious pathogens are likely, eating dropped food sounds okay to me—although it may not impress your date. But then dropping food on the floor has already cost you points anyway. Question: Which has more human pathogens, the floor or your spouse?...
...religion? Aside from their stellar SAT scores, Harvard students are distinguished from students elsewhere by their intellectual capacity, which demands explanations for everything and refuses to accept anything on mere faith. “If I saw Jesus walk on water, I would believe it—but unless I do, why would I believe it?” exclaimed a friend of mine.Such a skeptical attitude is understandable, as it is nurtured in academia. After all, students of science conduct experiments and rely on the results in order to prove their findings; mathematicians use deductive logic to prove their...
...million to the annual tax base, and should not be denied public services that they help fund. "Instead of waiting for Congress," says Tallmann, "Georgia has decided to take matters into its own hands, signing into law a punitive bill that does nothing to solve this complex issue." Unless Washington can finally tackle that issue, more states will follow Georgia's lead in coming up with their own solutions, however flawed some may think they...
...which may be seen by those to come, we should consider those who will be most affected. To my grandchildren, then, if you haven’t been admitted to this fine institution, my apologies—but wherever you are, you should know you have my utmost support. Unless, of course, you go to Yale; in that case I’m writing you out of my will.Matthew A. Gline ’06 is a physics concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...