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Smartphones here, smartphones there-how about a dumb phone? This week I tested the Jitterbug, a phone designed for the parents of baby boomers, a nice way of saying the only people who may not yet have cell phones. It?s the opposite of a so-called smartphone-far from push e-mail servers and multimedia text messages, this phone comes pre-loaded all the contacts you?ll ever need, and voicemail is optional. I said ?dumb? but in truth, this simple phone may be one of the smartest designs on the market...
Until last year, Chen Hong considered divorce an exotic American concept, as far removed from her life in Shanghai as gastric-bypass surgery or an addiction to reality-TV shows. Then she checked out her husband's cell-phone records. Hundreds of calls had been made to a mysterious number, sometimes just minutes after Chen left for work or took her daughter out to play. Like most Chinese women, Chen had abided by Confucian tradition, which advises that a virtuous wife should serve her husband like God, no matter what. But Confucius lived centuries ago, and Chen...
...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 Claire McCaskill and criticized her opponent, Senator Jim Talent, for opposing "expanding stem-cell research." Last week radio host Rush Limbaugh accused Fox of either acting or going off his meds to exaggerate the ravages of the disease. (If you were an admitted prescription- pill addict, you might hesitate to lecture a beloved, seriously ill star about his medication. But that...
More important, many of them were probably not partisans but people who might not have paid any attention to the stem-cell issue before the celebrity dustup roused their curiosity. (Just what made Rush so mad? How shaky does Alex P. Keaton look now, anyway?) In a past election, viewers might have seen the controversial ads only if they lived in Missouri or caught them on the news. Now they can find them, in full, at their leisure. They can also expand on, rebut or parody the ads, as numerous YouTubers did, including breatheasy7000, a woman whose 17-second video...
...studies. Once hubs for the confluence of ideas, modern universities have evolved into institutions fragmented by the bureaucracy of school, departmental, and research affiliations. Enter the peculiar institution of the research center, which circumvents arbitrary divisions on the organizational chart. The best example at Harvard is the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, which brings together over twenty schools and research centers across Cambridge and beyond, forcing together scholars who might otherwise not associate with each other by unifying funding sources, providing common leadership, and creating a forum for discussion and debate. It also singles out the singular importance of stem cell...