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...idea of continents altogether, turning from the familiar, but distorted, Mercator projection to a Dymaxion map. The commonly used Mercator projection developed in 1568 maps the globe on a rectangular, flat surface which stretches vertical distances. Conversely, the Dymaxion map, developed by former Harvard poetry professor and visionary, R. Buckminster Fuller, projects Earth’s surface onto a polyhedron, minimizing distortion. Not only do Dymaxion maps more accurately represent geography, they also avoid placing countries in accordance with the north-is-good, south-is-bad formula implicit in the tendentious original Mercator. In fact, in 1974, Dr. Arno Peters...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: A Continent Divided | 4/27/2008 | See Source »

...Adam R. Gold ’11, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Canaday Hall...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Expose the Texting Scheme | 4/27/2008 | See Source »

...Stable Boy continued to sharpen the scythe. “One takes one’s pleasure where one can find it,” he said softly. He gave the scythe one final stroke. This time, it threw off sparks.Thus concludes Part I of The Stable Boy. Lesley R. Winters’ serialized novel will resume in the fall...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE STABLE BOY | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...suburbs of Bath, takes a page from this book on their new album “Great Vengeance and Furious Fire,” blending their sexy British sound with one steeped in the rich American heirlooms of blues and funk. With a mixture of gospel-infused vocals, R&B beats, and garage rock sounds, they manage to simultaneously call Sonic Youth and Prince to mind, swaying between being more heavily influenced by one or the other throughout the album. Although the result is not always pure beauty (the low-fi, grating instrumental opening of the track...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Heavy | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...organizers of “Outwit” hope to show prospective students a different side of Harvard. “We study a lot, but we also have lives and we do things like freestyle rap,” Anderson says. The goal, according to event coordinator Brittney R. Lind ’11, is for people to leave “Outwit” having seen some of the real though sometimes underground talent at Harvard and “give all different types of expression the opportunity to be heard or read or seen...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Stylers Spit to 'Outwit' | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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