Word: labs
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...slightly more optimistic note. Although it is not an apologia for Dawkins' other books, it is a manual on how to read them. Dawkins contends that people habitually misconstrue science as deconstructive and demystifying. The average person, whose science background might not extend beyond a high school lab, has been programmed to set up a dichotomy of two domains for knowledge. Literature and the humanities are viewed as infusing wonder into the natural world, science as sucking it out. And so, people might feel "depressed" when they read something like The Selfish Gene, not because the book is innately pessimistic...
...team has also been burning the midnightoil for the past several years. Huang said heoften works long hours, remaining at the lab past10...
...Those were unfortunate events," he says of the recent Harvard laboratory spills. "But when you're working in a lab, you try to control for every event possible...
...lab safety here, it's top notch," he says...
...www.mcb.harvard.edu/scsafety provides information on lab emergencies, hazardous wastes and safe practices. It contains links to Harvard's EH&S homepage and to the Material Safety Data Sheets...