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...looks at the Silk Road initiative, and its underlying mission...promoting cultural understanding, cross-fertilization of ideas, mutual sharing and respect, the promotion of humanity through music,” Megan said. “This is what he does...
Jack C. Megan, director of Harvard’s Office for the Arts, reacted enthusiastically to the news of Ma’s appointment, referencing Ma’s recent work on the Silk Road Initiative as an example of his commitment to promoting cross-cultural understanding through music...
...sessions for multiple schools in addition to specific visits.“Our goal is to spur the number of Arab applicants to Harvard by encouraging to apply and advising them in the process,” said Shakir, “and to engage in and promote future cross-academic exchanges between Harvard and the region.”The trip is being sponsored by the Governance Initiative in the Middle East, a program run by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at KSG in conjunction with the Dubai School of Government, according to the KSG website...
...from slowly powering down, the brain as it ages begins bringing new cognitive systems on line and cross-indexing existing ones in ways it never did before. You may not pack so much raw data into memory as you could when you were cramming for college finals, and your short-term memory may not be what it was, but you manage information and parse meanings that were entirely beyond you when you were younger. What's more, your temperament changes to suit those new skills, growing more comfortable with ambiguity and less susceptible to frustration or irritation. Although inflexibility, confusion...
...nerve cells; the rest is white matter, the connecting tissue that, in a sense, glues it all together. Much of that white matter is made of conductive nerve strands, and covering each fine wire is a fatty sheath of myelin that keeps nerve signals from sputtering out or cross firing during transmission. "Myelin is what makes us human," says Bartzokis. "We have 20% to 30% more than other primates...