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“I had always heard about the Briggs-Copeland lectureships—they’re pre-eminent,” said Christina S. Davis, the curator of the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room and organizer of the event. “I felt like to anchor my...

Author: By Gulus Emre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reading With the Stars: Harvard Literati Step Out For Poetry | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

The latest, and possibly most comprehensive, entry into this genre is Dean Keith Simonton's new book Genius 101: Creators, Leaders, and Prodigies (Springer Publishing Co., 227 pages). Simonton, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, is one of the world's leading authorities on the intellectually eminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned? | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

Simonton rather dismissively calls this the "drudge theory." He thinks the real story is more complicated: deliberate practice, he says, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creating genius. For one thing, you need to be smart enough for practice to teach you something. In a 2002 study, Simonton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned? | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

And anyway, say the London atheists, it's actually the Christian adverts that may be offensive to some. While the Humanist Association defends the right of Christians to air their views, many of its members object to the Christians' choice of words. Richard Dawkins, the eminent Oxford biologist and author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christians and Atheists Battle in London Bus Wars | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

Review Every Case First, the Obama Administration must re-examine all the case files and decide which detainees to prosecute in the U.S., which to transfer to the custody of another government and which to simply release. There are nearly 250 detainees left, ranging from hard-core jihadists like Khalid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Orders Gitmo Closed. Now the Hard Part | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

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