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...part of Mark Ridley’s New York Times review of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Gould calls Ridley “one of my enemies” and scoffs at his comment that the book is too wordy. Two days later Gould paid generous tribute to Ernst Mayr, a forefather of the theory of punctuated equilibrium and fellow Harvard professor, in a lecture and book launch reception sponsored by the 2002 Harvard Scientists Lecture Series...
...never be important in her life” caused many sleepless nights. The names of Watson’s many romantic interests grace the pages: Sheila Griffith, Linda Pauling, Rachel Morgan, Mariette Robertson, Margot Schutt, and Belinda Bullard. Most of all, though, Watson speaks about his relationship with Christa Mayr, daughter of Ernst Mayr, a famous biologist at Harvard...
...Yale knows exactly what it took to manage a modern university. As decade ago, Gray—then an Overseer—sat on the committee that selected Rudenstine. Harvard's search was her fourth in four years, having also sat on the executive search committees for Bryn Mayr College, the Smithsonian Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Some had even taken to calling her the "Kingmaker...
...whether Mayr Girard is insane or not, Insanity leaves no doubt about the inhumanity of ancient mental institutions. Robertson illustrates in shocking detail the primitive treatment of the mentally infirm in days gone by. The cackling of the Furies as splinters were placed under the thumbnails of patients or as patients were thrust into freezing cold baths is enough to chill the blood. The play also discusses the plight of women, which is no coincidence as director Miriam R. Asnes '02 is a women's studies concentrator. Mary Girard, like many women of her time, was legally under the power...
...some curmudgeonly types, all this E.T. talk is pretty brainless. Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, for one, considers the likelihood of life of any sort beyond our planet close to zilch. Says he: "The chance that this improbable phenomenon [the creation of life] could have occurred several times is exceedingly small, no matter how many millions of planets in the universe...