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...arguably the world’s most famous experimental psychologist. His books make waves in academia and on The New York Times Bestseller List. An October 28, 2007 New York Times article cited his belief that there are over 1,200 words for “vagina.” FM catches up with the language-guru psychology professor Steven Pinker.1. Fifteen Minutes: Your ideas are intuitive but not obvious. How do you come up with them? Do they dawn on you while you’re making breakfast or are you a slave to your desk until you?...
...current emphasis on international competitiveness, he said of Porter’s appointment, “I’m delighted to be working with him and I’m delighted to see that Mitt Romney is reaching out to some of the best minds that academia has to offer...
...movement by “revolutionary political groups.” “I regard university campuses as some of the least free areas in the country,” Horowitz said in an interview with The Crimson. He said there is a tendency in American academia to disregard the threat of extremist Islamic elements for fear of offending Muslims. To serve as an academic counterweight to Horowitz’s claims, Islamic students discussed the difference between scholarly and misguided readings of the Qur’an last night. The question-and-answer session, sponsored by the Harvard...
...because I had not examined his work." Sam Selvon he boasts of having insulted face-to-face during a BBC radio interview, by referring to one of Selvon's books as "wretched." And Nirad Chaudhuri, in perhaps the least acerbic assessment, is dismissed as a pedant better suited to academia...
...connection in a solid way with what people see as problem gambling.” Since founding the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, an organization at Harvard Law School and elsewhere that promotes poker as a test of skill, Nesson has worked to introduce the game to academia. The society has held multiple discussion panels at Harvard concerning poker’s legality on the national and world stage. The group also plans to introduce a poker-based curriculum into a school in Dorchester, according to Nesson, who hopes that it will be viewed as a “positive...