Word: worldness
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates called on the nation's brightest young people to use their talents to engage with the world's biggest problems in an address to a packed Sanders Theatre this afternoon...
Statistics Professor Xiao-Li Meng says that his Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 16, “Real Life Statistics: Your Chance at Happiness (Or Misery)” class, formerly Statistics 105, had always featured a series of speakers who connected the field to various real-world applications, like law or romance. But this year, the Gen Ed office sponsored all the speaker fees and publicized the talks widely, dramatically increasing the turnout for each event...
This spring, a paper on stem cell research by Paul E. Schied ’13 was awarded the Conant Prize by the Gen Ed office for its interdisciplinary nature and emphasis on real-world applications...
...battle for power. We expect that our access to these sacred stacks could very well open the door to a new era in history, where the joint force of MIT and Harvard would conquer first the local Cambridge domicile, then the slightly larger continental United States, and, eventually, the world in its entirety. They say knowledge is power, right...
...status as a “manifesto” is ultimately problematic, since it is unclear for what exactly “Reality Hunger” can be said to be a ‘manifesto.’ The term implies the creation of an innovative world view, philosophy, or theory—basically, the advent of something new. And although Shields certainly believes his book to elucidate the development of a new art form, one that blurs to the point of invisibility the “distinction between fiction and nonfiction?...