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Relate the school to life,” wrote educational philosopher John Dewey in 1907, “and all studies are of necessity correlated.”In 2006, the Harvard Task Force on General Education, a small committee chosen to rethink last year’s General Education...
The gore-happy gang owes a lot of its recent good fortune to Whannell and Wan, who ushered in the latest iteration of big-screen bloodlust with the first Saw movie in 2004, just as eerie Japanese horror movies like The Ring were peaking. Whannell was a Melbourne, Australia, TV...
What are the core concepts I teach? First, I introduce the fundamentals of Geology as we consider the vastness of geologic time. I then use the global distribution of dinosaurs to introduce how the Earth operates as a dynamic system—how mantle convection moves the tectonic plates, which...
In the labs students learn how to interpret fossils, and how to use DNA sequences to determine evolutionary relationships. I also lecture on how advances in our understanding of the genome, for example the discovery of the Hox genes, bear on our understanding of morphological evolution. Finally, I discuss how...
Much of the book deals with el-Wafi's phone calls with her son, visits to the U.S. for his trial, and efforts to improve his defense. But perhaps the most compelling aspects of her story involve the juxtaposition of her evolution and the French-born Moussaoui's worldview and...