Word: goulding
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Dershowitz Draws--The special "thinking" course taught by Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, Geology Professor Stephen J. Gould and Philosphy Professor Robert Nozick was expected to be popular among students. Students, after all, are easily wowed by big-name professors. Perhaps most would not expect a group of distinguished adults to be so easily impressed, but that's exactly what happened at a special lunch Friday with Harvard's Institute of Politics fellows and a handful of undergraduates. The undergraduates offered a few course suggestions for the fellows to audit, but all the fellows could talk about was hearing Dershowitz...
...world-renowned expert, it's almost natural to assign [your own book] to your class," he says. "If everyone in the country is assigning books by Steven Jay Gould, there's no reason why Steven Jay Gould shouldn...
Church's desire to go south was sparked by his reading the German explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), who had traveled in Central and South America at the turn of the century. Humboldt was not only a scientist but a great popularizer. As Stephen Jay Gould points out in an excellent catalog essay, the first two volumes of his work Cosmos were seen by their 19th century public as the last word on nature and its origins. Humboldt's ideas were what Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species overthrew. For Humboldt, like Linnaeus before...