Word: excerpted
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...foolish, however, because the subject matter of the book is extremely relevant to everyone’s personal life: Hofstadter is leading an investigation of the elusive nature of subjective experience.Hofstadter has a gift for articulating the complex with wit, clarity, and accessibility. When he includes a relevant excerpt from the work of a less down-to-earth academic, one realizes that any other writing seems like a textbook compared to Hofstadter’s fluid, everyday prose. “I Am a Strange Loop” feels like the kind of intellectually thrilling late-night dorm room conversations...
...238th-richest man in Russia, travels from his hometown of St. Leninsburg to New York and then to the titular country in search of his father’s love, a U.S. visa, excessive amounts of exotic food, and eventually, his own identity. After reading aloud an excerpt about Misha’s first trip to New York and circumcision, at age 18, in a seedy Brooklyn home surrounded by Hasidic strangers, Shteyngart shared stories of the trauma of his own immigration. “I came here in the early 80s, or I guess late 70s-early 80s, which...
...hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui says in a harsh monotone, in an excerpt shown on NBC Nightly News. "But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash...
...Artistic Director Elizabeth Weil Bergmann and put on by the Dance Program of the Office for the Arts at Harvard, the show—which will run through March 3—is a stunning display of precision, grace, and cutting-edge choreography. The performance starts wonderfully with an excerpt from Balanchine’s exquisite “Serenade” supervised by Heather Watts, director of the Dance Program. All the dancers perform the choreography flawlessly, moving with synchronized precision and thoroughly illustrating the contrasts between fluidity and rigidity which characterize the piece. The dancers are successful...
Harvard's Steven Pinker looks into the mystery of consciousness and, along with a panel of philosophers and neuroscientists, explores how the jabbering of 100 billion neurons creates our sense that we exist at all. Sharon Begley, who writes the science column for the Wall Street Journal, offers an excerpt from her new book, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, about how the brain rewires itself, sometimes just by thinking. Daniel Gilbert and Randy Buckner answer the intriguing question: What does the mind do when it's doing nothing at all? (Hint: think H.G. Wells.) Robert Wright, author of Nonzero...