Word: coding
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...kept me busy for a couple of hours, going back and forth to discover its secrets. Shiga has recently created another CYOA-style book, "Hello, World," which has been cut in half horizontally, allowing the reader to create a story by flipping through either half. It contains a secret code, and if you figure it out, Shiga will refund the $20 price...
Freshman Week is a geography buff’s time to shine. And shine Fayanju did, especially with his legendary zip code divining-abilities. He knows so much geography that he is usually able to rattle off a new acquaintance’s zip code once he learns the hometown and street address...
...claim is not that Christianity never answers political questions. Some policies are so fundamentally opposed to the Christian moral code that no sincere Christian could support them. If I love my neighbor as myself, and if I define “neighbor” as broadly as Christ did, I cannot support the business of buying and selling slaves, of or shipping people to death camps, or of denying freedom to any of God’s children. American Protestantism should be proud of its role in the abolition movement. Bonhoeffer was right to invoke God against Hitler. Pope John...
...bring Harvard people back to Waldorf with me—said boyfriend and a friend with whom I feel especially close—and walk the halls determinedly, sure that those walls, sponge-painted in eggshell blue, can explain something. I show up in childish defiance of the dress code: bare midriff and shoulders, blue jeans. I talk too fast and accept the embraces and kisses of the teachers who watched me grow up. Am I happy at Harvard? I’m blissful...
...research. At a place with student groups inhabiting just about every possible niche, the lack of a group that brings scientists together to debate ethics might seem surprising. However, there is a good reason for the lack of interest. Often, demanding to discuss the ethics of science is code for trying to restrict its practice. Many scientists, wary of restrictions and firm in their belief that the ends of science (that is, understanding the world) lie outside of moral considerations, just refuse to enter the debate. But an unholy alliance of national security mavens and self-appointed academic ethicists...