Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...posthumous assault continues in Richard Pollak's The Creation of Dr. B. (Simon & Schuster; 478 pages; $28), a glum prosecutor's brief that is the second life of Bettelheim to be published within a year. A prolix psychobiography by Anglo-French journalist Nina Sutton, Bettelheim: A Life and A Legacy (Basic-Books; 606 pages; $35), covered the same ground but more sympathetically...
...goes beyond analytic description...Evolution is many orders of magnitude ahead of mankind today in creating a complex system. I don't think it's irreconcilable to say we will understand the human mind someday and explain it in software-like terms, and also to say it is a creation that shouldn't be compared to software. Religion has come around to the view that even things that can be explained scientifically can have an underlying purpose that goes beyond the science. Even though I am not religious, the amazement and wonder I have about the human mind is closer...
...move which may foreshadow the creation of a permanent 24-hour library, Cabot Science Library will open its doors at 10 a.m. on January 5 and not close them until 5 p.m. on January...
Pforzheimer House has also allocated a significant portion of its budget to the creation of a video library, Rawlins says...
...brain cells respond to serotonin (serotonin, of course, is the superstar neurotransmitter targeted by Prozac and other antidepressants). The gene comes in a short and a long version, and the study found that the short promotes fewer of the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption. The long promotes the creation of more such molecules. After giving personality tests to 505 individuals (who responded to such statements as "Frightening thoughts sometimes come into my head") and taking their blood for genetic analysis, the researchers found a significant correlation between the presence of the short gene and what Freud liked to call neurosis...