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...students, as I learned this year. So if the decks were reshuffled, wholly new departments might emerge: a department of evolutionary studies, say, or perhaps a department of cognition and neurobiology which would unite professors from the sciences with those involved in the arts and humanities. The possibilities are endless. The idea of reshuffling the decks has considerable appeal. But here’s the conundrum: the act of forming new institutions does not, ipso facto, solve the problem of institutional exhaustion. So rather than form new departments that would just calcify in their turn, we want a device that...

Author: By Daniel L. Smail | Title: Shuffling the Deck | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

Borges told his younger self about the life that awaited him: his family, the endless pages yet to be written, and even the looming World War that would dwarf the first one. Only literature–Dostoyevsky, Coleridge, Hugo–brought them together, yet their interpretations profoundly differed. Ultimately, Borges and The Other were the same person, but they were also strangers. Too much time, too many experiences came between them...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Meeting Oneself by the Charles | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...confusion punctuated by rare moments of clarity. When I leave the office at night, the confusion comes with me. Ruminating over these equations, seeking patterns, looking for hidden relationships, trying to make contact with measured data—it’s all uncertainty and possibility engaged in an endless chaotic dance. Every so often the blur resolves, but the respite is short-lived; the next puzzle demands focus. This, really, is the joy of being a scientist. Established truths are comforting, but it is the mysteries that make the soul ache and render a life of exploration worth living...

Author: By Brian Greene | Title: Questions, Not Answers, Make Science the Ultimate Adventure | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...take on the Abysmal state of the GOP is a grab bag: the sea of rapturous pink-faced men in suits at last year's Republican Convention, Sarah Palin speaking of her gay friend's "choice," the endless seven minutes of Bush sitting still during the onset of 9/11, pretty much any comment from Dick Cheney. When Obama was elected, many wept from a mixture of deep relief and optimism--only to be mocked afterward by Republican pundits, who would begrudge Obama anything. When will they get it? Will Gilchrist, LOS ANGELES

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...chose to be a lawyer and ultimately a judge because I find endless challenge in the complexities of the law. I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Text: Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Speech | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

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