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Admit it, you’ve googled yourself. Or your date. Or, occasionally, school-related topics.Google my name and you’ll find a slightly-embarrassing rundown on my high school math league exploits. Google David Vise and you’ll find that he’s a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of “The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time.” .Plunge further into the results of a Google search for “David Vise” and you?...
...said Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman. “Beyond the first term of their freshman year, students are immune to any advice they don’t want to hear.”“Without any control of distribution requirements one could have a math major who does three courses in music theory and three courses in economics and who would potentially read no piece of literature, look at no piece of art, [and] study no piece of history,” said Richard F. Thomas, chair of the classics department.Heated student calls...
Attention, first-years—-There is yet another reason to stay as far away as possible from Math 55: “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra.” It didn’t help Hugh M. Wolff ’75. The internationally renowned symphony conductor remembers his freshman-year initiation into the daunting world of Harvard math and science with some chagrin. “I took Physics 55 or something for physics majors and Math 50-something for math majors,” he laughs, saying he quickly realized he wasn?...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in math and science led to a discourse on an issue that should be, but often isn’t, addressed. Subsequently, major papers (the Times, the Washington Post) and magazines (Time, Newsweek, the Economist) followed up on the issue, publishing what gender studies have actually shown...
...small percentage of a very large number. Intractable misery is rife, it seems: in Australia last year, 12 million prescriptions for antidepressants were dispensed through the federal government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (up from 8.2 million in 1998), a figure equating to more than a million users. Do the math, says Sydney forensic psychiatrist Yolande Lucire: if only 1% of users suffer terrible side effects that aren't recognized for what they are, that's more than 10,000 Australians who've recently been disabled by a drug that was supposed to help them. "That would be enough to fill...