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...It’s incredibly low-key and incredibly fun. If for no other reason, go for the unique theatrical experience of being crammed into a tiny basement in Adams to watch five plays that didn’t exist a day ago,” says Matthew C. Stone ’11. He is referring to the 24-Hour Play Festival, produced this year by Stone, who is also a Crimson arts comper, and Megan L. Amram...
...atoms may seem minuscule--especially if they exist for only fractions of a second--but they can have huge implications. The recent announcement that Russian and American scientists finally managed to produce a tiny bit of element 117 by firing calcium atoms (element 20) at berkelium (element 97) fills in a missing spot on the periodic table. When the results are confirmed, "ununseptium" will get a catchier moniker and occupy the square between 116 and 118--elements that also await proper names from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry...
Like most of those after uranium (element 92), "ununseptium" is artificially made. This latest find supports the idea that as-yet-undiscovered stable elements exist, but no one knows for sure if there is an end point to the table or if additional artificially engineered elements will expand it even further. The question of how much bigger the 141-year-old chart can get is anything but elementary...
...Cancer is having a little brother who can’t play with me, a mother that breaks into tears with every piece of news, a father who’s so worried that he doesn’t know I exist,” said Wellesley student Jess Haladyna...
...There are a lot of different theories bouncing around, from bisexuality doesn’t exist to everyone is somewhere on a spectrum,” said Lucy C. O’Leary ’12, political co-chair of QSA and one of the organizers of the event. “This has a lot of relevance because the straight community and the gay community tend to shun bisexual people, and this scientific perspective can help bridge...