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Chilly and Cheesy: The Woman in Black Falls Short

Julia Moser  —  Feb 8, 2012

Julia Moser '15 reviews the new Daniel Radcliffe movie The Woman in Black.

Cornell Scientists Mask a Moment in Time

Paige Roosa  —  Feb 8, 2012

Moti Fridman, a postdoc in applied and engineering physics, and his colleagues, demonstrated for the first time the invisibility of an activity in time, a phenomenon known as temporal cloaking. 

Potter Ends With Remarkable High

Adam Lerner  —  Aug 22, 2011

 

Adam Lerner debuts his column with a meditation on Harry Potter, the end of childhood and moral relativism.

World's Wickedest Plants Wreak Havoc

Maria Minsker  —  Oct 6, 2010

“A tree sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed stops the heart; a shrub causes intolerable pain; a vine intoxicates; a leaf triggers a war. Within the plant kingdom lurk unfathomable evils,” writes author Amy Stewart in her most recent New York Times bestselling book, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities.

Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Flick

Jake Friedman  —  Aug 24, 2009

This article was originally published online on Jul 29.

There is a curious breed of person for whom Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which opened Wednesday, is new material. Bleary-eyed, paranoid, misguidedly noble, this breed has halted all Potterland talk over the past few months, perhaps with a slight twitch: “I’m waiting for the movie to come out.” It is for him that the traditional review would be necessary, but then he’d probably never read this anyway, out of a desire to avoid “spoilers.” A Sisyphean task, usually, but I think he’s up to it — illiteracy has its advantages.

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