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...What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty,” which was edited by John Brockman. The panelists, who all contributed essays to the book, featured Harvard psychology professors, Daniel Gilbert, Mark D. Hauser, and Elizabeth Spelke, as well as a Tufts philosophy professor, Daniel C. Dennett, and an MIT engineering professor, Seth Lloyd. Spelke said she believes human beings are alike, but that she also believes they are predisposed to believe they are fundamentally different. She said, though, that she remained convinced that people are capable...
...Elizabeth Bishop: “I suddenly felt how repressed she was, how distant, how self involved—how nature wasn’t really there, it was just Elizabeth Bishop floating through the world in this depressive haze...
...unique perspective to offer. Always willing to take a controversial stance in her political and cultural commentary, Paglia is also uncompromising in her aesthetic judgments. She conspicuously—and, she said, purposefully—did not include the works of respected poets like Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Seamus Heaney in her anthology (see the Sidebar). Hearing her reasons for their exclusion is important. Her analysis of 43 of the world’s most overrated poems would be delightful, infuriating, and a required read for anyone who cares about poetry today...
...other members of the advisory group, Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke and Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer, are on the Educational Policy Committee, which is advocating secondary fields—approved at the Faculty meeting last week—and delaying concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year —to be considered at the meeting next month...
Gottlieb Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren said that she bans laptops from all of her classes not because students are distracted by web surfing, but out of concern that many students transcribe her lectures instead of taking part in the “intense class discussion.” She reported that students are far more engaged in class activities when they are not able to use laptops...