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...high school, after my history teacher finished describing a particularly complex assignment, a boy in my class complained, “I don’t speak genius.” Clearly, our teacher had not explained the assignment in language the entire class could understand. Professors must be able to communicate subtle and complex information in our language. In other words, they need to learn how to stop speaking “genius” and start speaking intelligent undergraduate...
...seem to have arrived at a place in which those who can do can’t teach. Now it is up to Harvard to motivate its professors to teach well. At a new Harvard where effective teaching is a sought-after skill both learned and taught, fluency in genius will be made evident by its effective translation to its future speakers: captivated and contented undergraduates...
...memory, can't visualize seven-dimensional space and perhaps can't intuitively grasp why neural information processing observed from the outside should give rise to subjective experience on the inside. This is where I place my bet, though I admit that the theory could be demolished when an unborn genius--a Darwin or Einstein of consciousness--comes up with a flabbergasting new idea that suddenly makes it all clear...
...Hawkeye State left its imprint on Cech—he still has “Iowa values,” says Eaton. “He’s a good wholesome guy who happens to be a genius...
...anything emerged from last week's Madrid Fusion, the celebrated international conference of the epicurean avant garde, it was that algae is in vogue: Ferran Adri?, the founding genius of the new conceptual movement among chefs, wrapped a crab torso in it. Angel Leon, used it to clarify stock. And at the Porto Mui?os booth in the exhibition hall, the lechugas del mar sold like- well, hotcakes. But apart from a predominance of sea vegetables, it was hard to detect clear trends at Madrid Fusion. As some of the world's top chefs gathered to show off their stuff...