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...teach parents how to respond to their children as they age and help them manage the extra burden of parenting with few resources. Says Olds: "Learning to understand children's motivations and abilities helps parents treat them more sensitively and responsively, and that makes it easier for children to accept guidance and not respond provocatively...
...Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee—created in January 2007 to oversee interdisciplinary science across Harvard’s schools—will no longer accept seed grant proposals for cross-departmental research this spring, University Provost and committee chair Steven E. Hyman said Friday...
...existent) particles that causelessly and randomly come into and out of existence. It is pretty much impossible for the non-mathematician to understand how such a description might relate to the physical world. Quantum field theory is so abstract and mathematical that we really have little choice but to accept that such a description works...
...Evolution gets singled out because of its implications about the origin of human life. It is unintuitive, even for scientists, to accept that our species, which is unique in so many ways, has the same origins as a shark or a sequoia. But this does not account for why every single European country except Turkey is more willing than the U.S. to accept evolution as a fact. Presumably people in the EU care about what it means to be human...
...obfuscation. For instance, some attempt to spread the notion that there is a real debate among scientists between evolution and intelligent design and then encourage public schools to “teach the debate.” But among the most damaging tactics is to refer to those who accept evolution as Darwinists, because it feeds off the sense of awe many scientists genuinely feel toward Darwin. American creationists use it to imply that believers in evolution form little more than a religious sect, owing irrational fealty to a charismatic spiritual leader. It doesn’t help that...