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...questions to broader applications of course material. All of the professors in LS1a are capable lecturers, although Daniel Kahne turns more than a few off with, what some call, his abrasive demeanor. The rest of the professors are markedly good at teaching this weird quasi-biochem hybrid class, including boy-genius-turned-faculty-member David Liu, the hyper-energetic Robert Lue, Biology department chair Andrew Murray, and the fantastically engaging Erin O'Shea. Advice you've heard before: go to office hours; these profs are really fun, and at least one will probably win a Nobel Prize (our money...
...afraid to jump ship from a lab before the end of add-drop period if things don’t look peachy. Thesis-ing isn’t routine, so if you have something worth writing up, you’ll be publishing it in the big-boy journals.But generally competition is mostly with yourself. Yes, 95 percent of the class can’t be in the top 5 percent, but chemistry concentrators are hardly waving machetes at each other. Collaboration on problem sets, when allowed (and it almost always is), is routine and often invaluable. Many concentrators want...
...spring semester ’06’s whipping boy, but not quite for the right reasons. Okay, Larry Summers’ BFF did once build an entire lecture around a hunk of plastic dog poo, and he gets the lines between current scientific theory, his opinion, and incontrovertible fact all mixed up, the poor dear. Pinker may flirt successfully with psychology, neurobiology, and evolutionary theory, but his class is jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Le sigh. But on the bright side: Pinker’s brain is as big as his mullet...
...should also care because this is an age when entertainers have ever-greater influence over how young people think and act. A boy in a poor neighborhood with poor schools is more likely to model his behavior after his favorite rapper than his favorite teacher (if he has one). As the gangsta lifestyle becomes normalized through this process of imitation, delinquency and ignorance pervade and destroy entire communities...
...character has hooked web-surfers since his inception with his blend of down-home folksiness and frat-boy antics. He first gained national attention when he hungrily mused about the existence of "yellow cake" in Niger. His failed attempts to locate the tasty dessert were widely chronicled, but most of his audience seemed not to care; they were simply happy to be along for the ride with this charismatic personality, whose most salient trait is his ability to give others humorous nicknames...