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...just imagine Thomas L. Friedman lightly bobbing his head up and down while listening to “Edge of Seventeen” in some foreign land? I can. And I LOL’d. 2. Made-up Laws. Since at least 1982, Tommy has been inventing names for phenomena in the geopolitical and economic world, and calling them “rules” or “laws,” for some damn reason. And it’s always with a definite article at the beginning. “Russia is a classic example of what...
Matisse’s subway soundmakers, says Holton, are “a very humanistic idea” that try “to intersperse...the very pedestrian day-to-day existence of someone waiting on a platform” with scientific phenomena...
...simple video -- a TV actor speaking about his illness, his body wracked by spasms. In the pantheon of YouTube phenomena, Michael J. Fox's Missouri Senate ad is no Evolution of Dance or lonelygirl15. Unlike the online videos that usually catch on, it has no white rappers or cool choreographed treadmill routines; no one lip-synchs or makes a geyser with Diet Coke and Mentos. Yet this short TV spot may have done more than any other to show YouTube's potential as a political force. In the ad, Fox, a longtime Parkinson's disease sufferer, endorsed Democratic Senate hopeful...
...CrimsonGridBGL’s enormous processing ability—4,096 processors performing 11 trillion floating-point calculations per second, using five times less power than a traditional computer cluster with the same capability—will enable it to perform complicated simulations. “There are natural phenomena and processes which cannot be studied by direct observation or experimentation,” Watson Professor of Computer Science Michael O. Rabin wrote in an e-mail, referring to the need for computer modeling the Blue Gene executes. Use of the machine will be open to DEAS affiliates who submit...
Economics, in this way, would have been utilized as a powerful tool to understand social phenomena in an integrated, interdisciplinary manner...