Word: beliefs
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...history? I try very hard to pay attention to details. THC: How did Harvard influence your work? MR: Research on the Renaissance. One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. I would come across strange little details, and I don’t know how much people believed...
...really that we’ve found that students feel they’ve got an embarrassment of riches more than anything else.”The concentrators, currently seven seniors and eight juniors, actually end up taking only a few classes together including the introductory course Culture and Belief 16, taught by Mitchell.“It’s like what Rob Lue does in Life Sci 1a—a ridiculously overheated review and romp through the major genres,” said Mitchell, who added that he had never actually attended an introductory life sciences lecture.The...
...classless meritocracy, representative democracy in its purest, fairest form, and an undying optimism about our shared future.Today, one of the women Stevenson infelicitously dismissed with his remark has nevertheless taken up his banner, in a very different way. Governor Sarah Palin has made much ado over her belief in America’s place atop a moral-idealistic hierarchy since her nomination.Not one week ago, at the vice-presidential debate in St. Louis, Palin responded to a question about her Achilles heel with a defense of her worldview, which “says that America is a nation of exceptionalism...
...than some previous rumors such as Barack Obama being a Muslim or Palin banning books, which the USA Today determined to be false. Unlike book banning or religion which you can verify with library and church records, there is no way to find out what Palin’s beliefs on dinosaurs are unless she states them, which to date she hasn’t. Moreover, there is reason to believe the rumors are true.During the 2006 Alaska governor’s race, Palin stated that creationism and evolution should both be taught in the classroom, but that her opinion...
...year ahead of me to bring her attention to the fact that there was a turkey a few feet away from us. She looked at me like I was five years old.” To make matters even more confusing, Fredrickson pointed out that, contrary to popular belief, there appears to be more than one of the wild animals on campus. “I’m pretty sure there is more than one,” the California native said. “I think I’ve seen a bigger one and a smaller...