Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The parallels the author draws between the world and computers are fascinating, especially those on why computers were so appealing to teenagers. In a sense, teenagers of that time and computers grew up together, experiencing the same growing pains. "Together, computer and kid existed in a golden age, a time...
Top officials of Radcliffe College gathered in Fay House yesterday afternoon to discuss the next step of the 119-year-old institutions' evolution.
As the creator of the theory of multiple intelligences mentioned in your article "Seven Kinds of Smart," I would like to respond. You noted that so far my discussion of the different intelligences as routes to understanding important topics has been general. In The Well-Disciplined Mind, to be published...
The author of witty and mysterious curiosities, Cathleen Schine, takes an unexpected, wrong turn to the Galapagos Islands with The Evolution of Jane. The existential questioning of the protagonist, Jane Barlow Schwartz, is based on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. With the additional layering and listing of the names...
It is when Schine returns to the cold, somewhat scientific pseudo-Darwinian logic that she falters. There is an insultingly blatant parallel between Darwin's theory of evolution and the evolution of Jane's friendships and identity. There is no mystery about this self-explanatory connection, but at last Schine...