Very Pressing Television and Other Imaginary Things

This thesis explores the current branding of post-television according to Lacanian theories of enjoyment as they inform a definition of contemporary fandom. Written in part from the perspective of the viewer, this project takes television’s fantasies of itself as a taste-system half-seriously in order to examine deadlocked desire, the context of superegoic enjoyment, and their relevance to critical consumption. For a medium conventionally considered trivial and idiotic, television’s current self-importance provides a perverse and critical occasion to consider the urgency surrounding our stuff–loving

05/28/1946 C

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from mother Rebecca (Peggy) regarding attempts to move up Sumner\u27s discharge date; Harvard summer school.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/sbernstein_correspondence/1208/thumbnail.jp

09/28/1945

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from his mother Rebecca regarding strategies for coping with his boredom; medical news about his father; local charity budgets.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/sbernstein_correspondence/1176/thumbnail.jp

The Deuterium to Hydrogen Abundance Ratio Towards the QSO SDSS1558-0031

We present a measurement of the D/H abundance ratio in a metal-poor damped Lyman alpha (DLA) system along the sightline of QSO SDSS1558-0031. The DLA system is at redshift z = 2.70262, has a neutral column density of log(NHI)=20.67+/-0.05 cm^2, and a gas-phase metallicity [O/H]= -1.49 which indicates that deuterium astration is negligible. Deuterium absorption is observed in multiple Lyman series with a column density of log(NDI)=16.19+/-0.04 cm^2, best constrained by the deuterium Lyman-11 line. We measure log(D/H) = -4.48+/-0.06, which when combined with previous measurements along QSO sightlines gives a best estimate of log(D/H) = -4.55+/-0.04, where the 1-sigma error estimate comes from a jackknife analysis of the weighted means. Using the framework of standard big bang nucleosynthesis, this value of D/H translates into a baryon density of Omega_b h^2 = 0.0213 +/- 0.0013 +/- 0.0004 where the error terms represent the 1-sigma errors from D/H and the uncertainties in the nuclear reaction rates respectively. Combining our new measurement with previous measurements of D/H, we no longer find compelling evidence for a trend of D/H with NHI.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Letter

Mrs. Israel (Rebecca) Bernstein

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