Word: weatherly
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...driving force behind prediction markets is something called information aggregation. Traditionally, it has been the realm of professionals such as pollsters or weather forecasters or the CIA. Those experts tend to be knowledgeable but are prone to certain limitations: personal bias, groupthink, clashing personalities. "In companies, not only are people afraid to get an answer, they are afraid of asking the question," says Emile Servan-Schreiber, CEO of NewsFutures Inc., which sells markets programs to corporations. So a market can benefit from outsiders' views that are reflected, in real time, in the form of prices. The dirty secret is that...
DERY: Is it possible that a new age of extreme weather--superstorms and such--will create some sort of galvanizing environmental movement that will bring people together...
There’s a chill in the air and, according to the University’s health representatives, it may take more than dining-hall cocoa to stave off a case of the shivers. As cold weather becomes more common at Harvard, so does the common cold—and students from the Community Health Initiative (CHI) are already on the defensive. CHI representatives will be giving out “Winter Season Survival Kits” in dining halls today and tomorrow during lunch and dinner, in hope of staving off what they...
...FORECAST: A BLACK SPELL OF WEATHER Al Roker in a windbreaker is no longer the height of meteorological comedy. Funnyman LEWIS BLACK is upping the ante, as the Daily Show correspondent becomes the first celebrity to deliver the forecast on the Weather Channel this week. "I'll just be doing what I do best, yelling and screaming about something no one has any control over," says Black, who appears on the cable network's Evening Edition. Black notes that David Letterman started as a weatherman in Indiana. "Both jobs," he says, "are about making palatable the fact that the next...
...five minutes. “The big moments came when Ali Boe kept us in the game,” Stone said. “We have a lot of work to do. We’re young, but we are going to be fine. We just have to weather the storm and Ali understands that fortunately we have someone who can keep us in the games until we figure out what we are doing.” —Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached at gmvelez@fas.harvard.edu...