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According to the project’s website, the raised-bed style garden will be used to create community awareness about the role of food in the environment and its effect on people’s health...
...admitted students—who filled Sanders Theater and spilled into Science Center B, where the presentation was simulcast—inquired mainly about academics at Harvard. They questioned the president about cross-registration at MIT, opportunities for field work in biology, and the effect of attending Harvard College on acceptance to a Harvard graduate program...
Recently, I joined my fellow seniors for a nostalgic rendezvous at Annenberg, courtesy of the Senior Swap dinner. As I was helping myself to water, I noticed a little sign above the coffee maker that read something to the effect of, “Our coffee grounds are an essential component of Harvard’s new, all-natural fertilizer.” In any case, it was one more proof of how Harvard’s new slogan “Green is the new Crimson” has permeated campus life...
...first is closely related to a philosophical idea popularized by Soros himself: reflexivity. Originally developed as a sociological concept, reflexivity incorporates the essential feedback loop between cause and effect into analysis. This is best illustrated through self-fulfilling prophecies; think about a bank run à la Northern Rock: If rumors abound about a bank being illiquid, depositors will self-fulfill the prophecy by queuing to clear their accounts. There is a ‘tipping point’ for bubbles or bursts alike, which explains where market performance is anything but normally distributed. As Nassim Taleb made a career...
...computationally intractable,” meaning that if there were an answer, the amount of data required to compute it is beyond not only our current methods, but anything we could ever achieve—we just cannot expect computers to model the very effect of their modeling...