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...Gist: It's difficult to think of a simpler concept for a book than one about walking. It's one of the most pedestrian (saw that one coming, huh?) topics around. As author Nicholson writes, "Looked at a certain way, walking is the most ordinary, natural, ubiquitous activity. What could be more commonplace or lacking in eccentricity than the act of walking?" Nothing, right? False, as Nicholson demonstrates over a few hundred pages. In song, in literature, in wacky walking wagers, he breezily explores every possible cultural manifestation of perambulating...
...happening on a way faster and a much larger scale than we thought it would. It is truly scary.”The urgency of the issue inspired McKibben, a former president of The Harvard Crimson, to put aside his 20-year career as a prolific journalist and author. Writing, he said, is “too slow” to effect change, while talks and large-scale events have greater potential to both “spark” citizens to participate and pressure politicians to act.In the spring, McKibben spearheaded 1,400 simultaneous demonstrations across the country advocating...
...novelist Chinua Achebe explains, using the term both figuratively and literally. “You let the story develop. You let the story begin. The story makes all kinds of preparations for its own arrival.”No one knows that truth better than Achebe. The Nigerian author, who currently teaches at Bard College, established himself as Nigeria’s literary ambassador to the Western world with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” published in 1959. This past Tuesday, Chinua Achebe came to Harvard to celebrate his novel’s fiftieth...
...that have helped Everett make a name for himself in the academic world (though much of this bubbles up in the former part of the text as well). According to Everett—who has spent more time with the Pirahã than any other researcher and is the authority on their language—the Pirahã lack counting and numbers, creation myths, an kinesthetically-oriented sense of direction, and even some linguistic attributes that were commonly held to be universal. These include quantifiers (e.g. all, every) and recursion (the placement of one phrase or sentence within another).Everett...
...unlikely alliance between pulp fiction and organic chemistry, Patricia Cornwell, author of the best-selling “Scarpetta” thrillers, will establish a conservation scientist position at Harvard to further close examinations of art materials...