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According to sources in the blogosphere, a high school senior was accepted by Harvard to join the Class of 2014 but then had his offer rescinded when he supposedly invited Harvard to "kiss [his] ass" in a Facebook status update. We at FlyBy set out to debunk the myth...
Natalie E. McBride ’13, who took the course last semester and traces her roots back to Haiti, appreciated Bergin’s desire to debunk stereotypes, such as those about voodooism, which Bergin did by bringing in a voodoo priestess as a guest speaker. And while McBride’s Haitian heritage made the recent earthquake crisis in Haiti hit close to home, she said that taking this course and volunteering in Dorchester made her more “aware...
Pitch: A Socratic dialogue between a man and a gorilla named Ishmael who attempts to debunk the “myth” of human supremacy...
...findings debunk the long-standing assumption that Broca’s area—which is commonly linked to language production—serves a completely distinct purpose from Wernicke’s area—the region responsible for language comprehension...
Gordon Gekko got it wrong. In his new book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, primatologist Frans de Waal uses a variety of studies on empathy in animals to debunk the idea that humans are competitive to the core. He talked to TIME about contagious yawning, why we share and Bernie Madoff. (See photos of Madoff's downfall...