Word: kuhns
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...learning is just what Western WASP culture has decided is right. If you were coming from somewhere else, or were the opposite sex, then those basic laws of physics, math and life might be completely different, as many scholars, including Stanley Fish and the late Thomas Kuhn, argue. In his new book, Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and former Harvard professor Steven Weinberg takes on these critics, if not skillfully, at least thoroughly...
...motion—raised by Philip A. Kuhn, Higginson Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations and English Professor James Engell—reaffirms the Faculty’s 1970 Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities which states, among other things, that “...interference with members of the University in performance of their normal duties and activities must be regarded as unacceptable obstruction of the essential processes of the University...
Professors Engell and Kuhn were unavailable for comment, as were students from...
Also contributing to the study were Dr. Lynette Denny of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, Dr. Louise Kuhn, of the School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Dr. Amy Pollack of the EngenderHealth program in New York...
...panelists clashed over the roles that coal and natural gas should play in expanding supply. Richardson wants new plants to use natural gas because coal-fired generators spew carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. Kuhn notes, however, that coal prices are typically lower and more stable than natural-gas prices and argues that better technology promises to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions as well...