Word: grasping
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...Study of a Magnified Pheasant’s Feather” is signed and dated in print that is so miniscule that it looks like a solid line to the naked eye.Yet one does not get lost in the details, and it’s easy to grasp the overarching themes running throughout the exhibition. The centrality of these works to Boston, and especially Harvard, gives the collection particular relevance. Norton was Harvard’s first professor of fine arts, and Moore was Harvard’s first professor of studio art, as well as the first director...
...challenging day, it’s been a very stimulating day,” Winston said. “It’s been a very good day. It’s been a very aggressive day, a very busy day, but I feel I have a much better grasp of all the wonderful things that are going on here...
Cohen Kadosh may not have the solution, but it turns out he does have a pretty good grasp of the problem. For the first time ever, he and others at UCL have figured out how to induce dyscalculia - temporarily - in people with normal mathematical ability. That may not sound very useful. But in doing so, the UCL researchers have pinpointed the part of the brain they believe is responsible for humans' intuitive sense of magnitude - or what makes a number...
This means that scientists can, in effect, switch off a person's grasp of numbers. It's fascinating, both because it reduces a serious learning disability to the mere flick of a neural switch and because, by doing so, it holds out a tantalizing possibility that one day a cure may be as simple as flicking that switch in reverse. Cohen Kadosh hopes the result will allow scientists to develop a diagnostic tool for dyscalculia based on neuroimaging. Identifying children with developmental dyscalculia would let parents intervene earlier to teach important math concepts, just as they can intervene today...
...their lives. And so, much like the origins of seersucker, I have found that finding happiness at Harvard often means having to say goodbye.Leaving Harvard to study abroad was perhaps the single best decision of my undergraduate career. Not only did going to France give me a better grasp of the French language and culture—replete with champagne and encounters with the French police—but also it gave me an appreciation for Harvard that I would not have experienced otherwise. I missed the intellectual vigor, the faculty, house life, and most of all my friends back...