Word: explainers
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...maybe something he was? This is the kind of thing that Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker, thinks about in The Tipping Point (Little, Brown; 279 pages; $24.95), a somersaulting exercise in social theory that tries to explain how ideas and trends are spread. Like germs, is Gladwell's answer. Hush Puppies and Big Bird, hypodermics and Republicanism--every notion and product can catch on in ways that resemble medical contagions. The most explosive are set off when very effective carriers spread very potent strains in very conducive settings. And in these social outbursts, Gladwell tells...
...Lack of master narratives like Marxism, Darwinism, religious creeds, etc. that explain everything. Instead there are a bunch of competing mini-narratives striving to be heard...
...Objective: To decode the climactic impotence of all the male characters in the show at the end of Act I and to explain the subtle social significance of losing one's genitals...
...London, Washington D.C., and San Francisco. The Harvard Square camera peers from the office of Car Talk, a national radio show and newspaper column, and can be accessed from their website. Along with auto-related humor and more off-the-wall topics, Car Talk hosts Tom and Ray explain on the link that the camera mimics their daily activity: staring numbly out of their window. And when the voyeuristic entertainment loses its thrill, thereis always Time Kill Central (http://cartalk.cars.com/Time-Kill/), another wonderful discovery for the Harvard procrastophile. Described by its creators as ia collection of dumb stuff...
...explain. Early last week, I was into the med school idea in my hard core Tiger kind of way. I searched every website out there and diligently recorded lists of med school requirements, saw a summer of organic chemistry in my immediate future and was even genuinely excited about it (well, mostly...