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...Robert published his first book, The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero. The book was a bestseller, praised by The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal and translated into eight languages...
Although he attributes his success to the fact that “there are a lot of loony people to whom zero is important,” he says that “there is a tremendous hunger for certainty...
Jack Harris, a post-doc researcher, has his lab next door. His research involves supercool low-temperature Physics. Harris estimates that approximately one-third of the experimental physics at Harvard is supercool. Because of such extreme coolness (Harris’ experiment runs at .3 degrees above absolute zero), the research hinges on first-rate apparatus. About two-thirds of the equipment is made from scratch, and a substantial fraction is made in-house at the shop next door by Stanley Cotreau. Harris described Cotreau as, “one of the few people at Harvard who is the absolute master...
...what would happen then, if a person lost his ID 10 times? If such an especially forgetful student came along, Wamback says, the last digit would simply be reset, beginning again at zero. Despite the many absent-minded undergraduates who have come dangerously close to accumulating ten lost ID’s, this reset function has never actually been put to the test—Wamback says that the greatest number of times a student has ever lost his ID is 9 times in four years...
...Kirkuk is ground-zero of both Turkish and Kurdish ambitions in northern Iraq. The Turks' primary concern is to counter the ambitions of Iraq's Kurdish nationalists - although the Kurdish parties that have governed the section of northern Iraq liberated from Baghdad in 1991 officially deny they plan to seek an independent state, that goal has long been an organizing principle of local Kurdish politics. And Turkey, fearful that even formalized Kurdish autonomy in Iraq would stoke secessionist passions among its own Kurdish minority, has threatened to send its own troops into the region to keep a lid on Kurdish...