The Gaucho Sells Out: Thomas Pynchon and Argentina

Art/Official Insemination: Social Reproduction in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

Analyzing the Pynchon Gate Protocol

I analyzed the Pynchon Gate Protocol, a pseudonymous mail reply handling protocol introduced by Sassaman, Coen, and Mathewson, and in particular BitTorrent’s suitability for it’s purpose within that protocol. After an unfulfilling attempt at using PRISM, I wrote a BitTorrent simulator and used that to verify the feasibility of an attack delaying the distribution of the mail and possibly removin...

She sells stem cells…

“Some time next year an embryo will be cloned from a human adult. It will be implanted in the uterus of a young woman selected with some care for her wide pelvis and robust health. A son will be born at the dawn of the third millennium. Neither angels nor news wires are likely to herald the birth. The father — an Asian plutocrat, South American kleptocrat or aging Western rock star — won’t be l...

a comparative study of the theme of "marriage" in three victorian novelists: charles dickens, george eliot and thomas hardy

این تحقیق کوشیده است با انتخاب پنج رمان از میان آثار برگزیده، «چارلز دیکنز»، «جورج الیوت» و «توماس هاردی » و با رویکردی تطبیقی به بررسی درونمایه ی «ازدواج» در آثار این سه رمان نویس بزرگ دوره ی ویکتوریا بپردازد. فرضیه ی اولیه ی تحقیق این بوده است که چارلز دیکنز (1870- 1812) با زبانی شوخ و گزنده، جورج الیوت(1880- 1819) با نگاهی آموزشی–اندرزگونه و توماس هاردی(1928- 1840) با رویکردی تلخ وانتقادی به...

Instrumentational Complexity of Music Genres and Why Simplicity Sells

Listening habits are strongly influenced by two opposing aspects, the desire for variety and the demand for uniformity in music. In this work we quantify these two notions in terms of instrumentation and production technologies that are typically involved in crafting popular music. We assign an 'instrumentational complexity value' to each music style. Styles of low instrumentational complexity ...