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...website claims that, “we aim to bring the perspectives of the neurosciences into sustained, challenging dialogue with those of the social sciences and humanities. In an academic environment that tends towards increasing specialization, isolation and polarization of knowledge, we are piloting ways of navigating the disciplinary fault lines that interfere especially with communication between the natural sciences and social-humanistic forms of inquiry...
Poor Charles Darwin. He was a kind, gentle soul--decent to a fault, some have said--yet he keeps getting cast as the Antichrist. The latest equation of Darwinism with godlessness comes in Ohio, where some members of the state school board want to downgrade the theory of natural selection in the biology curriculum guidelines. If their effort succeeds, Darwin's theory would have to share the blackboard with a school of thought called "intelligent design theory." Boosters of intelligent design--ID, for short--hope this triumph would be the first step toward restoring a spiritual dimension to our understanding...
...what you will about the liberties the bond string quartet takes with a piece of classical music, you can't fault its sexually charged performances for being off key. Off color, yes. A bond concert is a melodic lap dance: the four sylphs do energetic things with their orchestral instruments, not to mention their hips, that would compel Stradivari to order an exorcism. One does not learn to straddle a cello that way at a conservatory...
Criticizing the Bush administration for its pinning of the recent economic downturn on Clinton-era policies, he asked, “Was it Clinton’s fault that it was the mildest recession in history...
...students filling out such a thing are encouraged to imagine that anything wrong with the tutor-student relationship is the fault of the tutor, and that they bear no responsibility,” Georgi writes in an e-mail...