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...mixed crowd of undergraduates and graduate students listened to Boston College Professor of Theology Lisa S. Cahill call for religious dialogue to deal more directly with today’s sexual culture...
...eight years later, founding CEO Robert Walter moved the company into pharmaceuticals. Over the next two decades, he transformed the firm into a $75 billion conglomerate. "It was a very entrepreneurial company, founded out of the back of this Harvard Business School guy Bob Walter's car," says Lisa Gill, a JPMorgan analyst who has covered Cardinal since 1999. "People talked about Cardinal wanting to be the GE of health care...
...result was a candygram filled with high fructose corn syrup and reviled by reviewers; the movie rated an abysmal 15% on the Rotten Tomatoes poll of critics. To Jim Slotek of Jam! Movies it was "a rom-com monstrosity"; Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum dubbed it "Crap, Actually"; and virtually every other reviewer approached Valentine's Day as if it were VD. But look: if audiences followed critics, the weekend's top movie (100% on Rotten Tomatoes) would have been American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein. Marshall can trash-compact those notices and frame his royalty checks. The film...
Enter Dr. Margaret S. Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, whose research focuses on human visual perception. Livingstone realized that while contemporary art historians like Ernst Gombrich are not wrong in their analysis of “Mona Lisa,” there’s a science to da Vinci’s masterpiece that had yet to be fully explained. Analyzing the work in terms of its spatial frequencies, Livingstone revealed that the lower spatial frequencies, best seen by the peripheral vision, make the figure appear to smile, while at higher frequencies the smile almost vanishes...
...there are a few ways that you can respond to it. First of all, you can say great, finally that has been explained by scientific fact. Or you can say, well does that mean, since I do not agree with the floating emotion in the Mona Lisa, does that mean that my neurologic apparatus is not okay? … I would simply say that all that neuroscience can provide is post-festum observations of what people already perceived on a fundamental level...