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...wrote in an e-mail after he taped the show, adding that he was “pretty nervous beforehand.” Most of the discussion focused on Pinker’s 2002 book “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature??—a book on evolutionary psychology—as Pinker struggled to explain his beliefs about brain function while Colbert joked and interrupted him. Colbert also poked fun at Pinker’s 2003 move from MIT to Harvard. “You were at MIT first then went...
...mongoose, and the police officer and the college student. When each meet, violence typically occurs: The mongoose enters a death-tango with the cobra. The University of California, Los Angeles policeman tasers students in the library. This is nature. However, as human beings, we have the ability to overcome nature??s imperatives through the use of civilizing institutions like mutual respect, and porta-potties. The tailgate didn’t achieve much, but the peaceful existence of a high concentration of police and students was a kind of success...
...rich with the kind of verbal weirdness that makes “You Never Can Tell” such an incisive comedy—he insists on calling the dentist Valentine a “gum architect” and frequently references his “knowledge of human nature??—but Stuntz doesn’t quite know what to do with Phil’s quirks...
...methods and process of scientific research, discovery, and invention.” Nevertheless, such a philosophy is only as good as its application. For example, the report’s citation of Molecular and Cellular Biology 60, “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature??—which last year could be petitioned to count for the current Moral Reasoning requirement—as an acceptable scientific general education course is dubious at best. In our view, such a course places too much emphasis on the report’s third, less significant, criterion...
...Nickname of a core course, “The Evolution of Human Nature??—formerly a gut—taught by Prof. Marc Hauser and and Prof. Richard Wrangham. 2. Something you will have a lot of at Harvard, with very attractive people. For real, I swear. 3. Not a determinant of scientific intelligence. 4. Intercourse (only at Harvard is this...