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...concept is to get student input on many decisions,” said Zachary A Corker ’04, the manager of Loker Commons planning and program development...
...limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point. The artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?”The equivocator would answer it in this way: “Some people believe that David Hume...
...chemistry in the context of modern medical applications. Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94, one of the class’s four professors, writes in an e-mail that he hopes students will emerge from the course with an awareness of how concepts from different disciplines come together in contexts such as HIV and cancer.“The value of interdisciplinary approaches in scientific research is already widely appreciated,” Liu writes. “Hopefully courses such as LS1a will reveal the value of interdisciplinary approaches in science education...
...Christians have used bells for thousands of years. Time in western Christian civilization was a Christian concept. Days were marked by prayers,” Gomes says...
...scientist, launched with much fanfare his flying machine on the Potomac. It plummeted into the river. Nine days later, Orville and Wilbur Wright got the first plane off the ground. Why did these bicycle mechanics succeed when a famous scientist failed? Because Langley hired other people to execute his concept. Studying the Wrights' diaries, you see that insight and execution are inextricably woven together. Over years, as they solved problems like wing shape and wing warping, each adjustment involved a small spark of insight that led to others...