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...Posner writes, “social control of science cannot be left to the scientists.” In challenging his readers to wade into the arcane debate over strangelet disasters, Posner brings particle physics to the masses. By framing cost-benefit calculations in lucid prose, Posner helps the non-economists among us make decisions in the face of unlikely but potentially earth-shattering risks...
...Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown; 277 pages). Gladwell isn't a psychologist or a tennis pro. He's a journalist, a staff writer for the New Yorker, but he likes to dabble in those kinds of intriguing, messily interdisciplinary problems, to which he brings his singularly lucid, clarifying intellect...
...hopes of a well-thought out, well-implemented program to replace the Core—which was neither well-thought out nor well-implemented—will be dashed upon the rocks of mediocrity and befuddlement unless the committee develops clearer objectives. They have not decided on a lucid concept of the purpose of general education, and as a result, all further discussion seems to be moving in circles. Students and faculty must know what the principles underlying the proposed system of general education are—and they must buy into it—or else the long-heralded...
...mysterious egg-like structure beneath the Carpenter Center ramp served as the site of Huyghe’s live performance last month. VES concentrator William A.W. Parker ’07 says “the show was more of an experience. The enclosed space created a kind of lucid dreamscape for the fairy tale to take form...
...debutante ball! The idea of that process as an end product of its own is valid but remains a fantasy. Nevertheless, I want readers to see my work the way I think about the topics: ruminative, sensitive, shrewd. Specific, but with broad implications. Pointed yet flexible; irreverent yet respectful; lucid yet informal...