Word: darwins
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...let’s take a cue from Darwin. We must let the system work not through party politics or interest group wrangling but through good kids with good ideas competing for votes. The council isn’t running a country—it’s running a group fundamentally interested in improving student life. We don’t need parties or interest lobbying. We must let the independent, proactive candidates become our independent, proactive council members...
...GROWTH, OF DISEASE AND AGING ... As the basic ingredient of the genes in the cells of all living organisms, DNA is truly the master molecule of life. [The discovery] was one of the great events in science, comparable to the splitting of the atom or the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species...
...complete first-edition collection of Jane Austen's novels. Churchill is a hit at Asprey. One client bought a Churchill book for George H.W. Bush, and another purchased an inscribed copy of Churchill's secret-sessions speeches for Bill Clinton. There's also a first edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species for the straight-A student in your life...
...people are trying--really trying--to get their neighbors biking and walking. In case you haven't heard, exercise has many advantages. For anyone trying to keep off weight, the simple activity of putting one foot in front of another is surprisingly useful. So in mid-May, Mayor Darwin Hindman, who at 71 still bikes to work, kicked off Bike, Walk and Wheel Week to coax residents to commute and shop without cars. Mayor Hindman and local Congressman Kenny Hulshof led dozens of cyclists on a 4-mile ride. A week later, volunteers were serving breakfast all over town...
Common sense sticks, to some extent, with the old paradigm. A lot of things endorsed by the starlings (reality TV, politicians, best-selling books) are so moronic that they practically disprove Darwin. But Surowiecki does not claim collective perfection, only the effectiveness of a diversity of individual intelligences--like those hundreds of scientists at labs all over the world who, without overall supervision but sharing their data, succeeded in isolating the SARS virus in only a matter of weeks. The Wisdom of Crowds is a subtly intelligent book that's fun to argue with: if it becomes a best seller...