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...currently the oldest gate in Harvard Yard, designed by the New York firm McKim, Mead & White. The gate was the first Harvard structure built from what is now referred to as “Harvard brick,” used to ensure that the gate would resemble already extant eighteenth-century buildings in the Yard. The University requested that the gate, along with future buildings, only use a distinct type of hand-made and wood-burned red brick.The Guardhouse, also referred to as the “Gatelodge,” was constructed in 1983 and designed by Graham...
...read about the Pirahãs before visitimg them the first time, I would have learned that missionaries had been trying to convert them for over two hundred years. From the first record of contact with the Pirahãs and the Muras, a closely related people, in the eighteenth century, they had developed a reputation for 'recalcitrance' - no Pirahãs are known to have 'converted' at any period in their history...
...after his eighteenth birthday, Billy got his tongue pierced. Over the years, he’s stretched out the hole to its present size—capable of accommodating a fork. To demonstrate how he did this, he deftly pushes his tongue about in his mouth and pops out two thick metal stems. He then easily slips his index finger through the fleshy chasm. He wiggles...
...with a matching top hat honored a group of distinguished scientists for their research relating to the fertility cycle of lap dancers, the moral consideration of plants, and the spontaneous knotting of string. Last night in Sanders Theatre, the unusual met with the academic at the “Eighteenth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.” The ceremony—hosted by the scientific humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research”—bestowed awards in 10 different categories of original research, from nutrition to archaeology. In past years, researchers have been...
...places Theroux visits, and people he meets. In Bangalore, India, he comes across two guys, Vidiadhar and Vincent, who had managed one of the earliest call centers, among other things processing mortgages for an Australian finance company. Theroux sets up this section by noting that "in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Indian labour had been exploited for its cheapness. Coolie labour was the basis of the British Raj ... Again I recognized the paradox, that India's poor were its wealth...