Word: complexity
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...complete. Joe Gibbon's Multiple Barbie began as a one-joke film of a man psychoanalyzing a schizophrenic Barbie-doll and then slowly morphed into a profound exploration of the director's own psychoses. Wendy MacNeil and Alice Wingwall gave us their Miss Blindsight: The Wingwall Auditions, a complex documentary about an artist who has lost her sight. These films are just a small sampling of the independent vision that was omnipresent at this festival. Each film felt like a child, like a living form that had been nurtured with love and dedication. These kids also probably drove their parents...
Performing Blue Leaves is a risky venture, as the play depends heavily on the interpretative and dramatic talents of the three lead characters, Artie, Bunny (Emily Knapp '03), and Bananas. Thankfully, these three talented actors succeeded in their complex and difficult roles: Artie and Bunny's normalcy runs smoothly beside Bananas' wild antics. Their exploration of this world of insanity poses a question to the audience: who is truly crazy and is our preconceived idea of sanity reliable? Catherine Gowl masters the play's most challenging role by showing us glimpses of sincerely felt pain and tenderness in the midst...
...underfunded system of public defense for capital crimes. Because indigent defendants in many states are represented by court-appointed lawyers paid only a fraction of the normal rate for similar legal work, the system tends not to select those lawyers with the necessary experience and qualifications to try a complex criminal case, but those who are willing to work cheap. A state that is willing to pay any price to recruit talented and knowledgeable prosecutors but refuses to commit resources towards the defense does not have a justice system worthy of the name. The bill would provide strong incentives...
Unfortunately, we are stymied by the fact that our knowledge about life must, at least for now, be limited to studies of a single experiment on Earth. All earthly life shares a remarkably complex set of biochemical features, but does this commonality record the only conceivable building blocks for any entity that we would call "alive"? Or do all earthly creatures share these features only because we have inherited these properties from a common ancestor that used one configuration among a million alternatives unknown to us but quite conceivable and workable? Indeed, would we, in our carbon-based parochialism, even...
This strange idea leads to even stranger consequences, including the fact that as an object goes faster, its mass increases (the reasons are dizzyingly complex, but it's been verified in particle accelerators). The faster you go, the harder it is to get yourself going faster still. As you near the speed of light, your weight heads for infinity, which makes it infinitely hard to go faster. So while we might reach 99% of light-speed, or even 99.99999%, the last little bit will forever lie just beyond our grasp...