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...Saddam Hussein, death row murderers, and George W. Bush, to name a few common targets. Pointing fingers seems like the easiest course of action whenever a problem arises. “I could never do what they do,” we tell ourselves. But as famed psychologist Philip Zimbardo reminds us, we are all capable of distasteful, even evil, actions, given the right situation.As anyone who has taken an introductory psychology course knows, Zimbardo was the creator and lead experimenter in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) of 1971, which resulted in the “dominant conclusion?...
...comes a time when we are supposed to discard children’s books and read “real” literature. Yet something about the books adults read when they’re young continues to attract and influence them. Books like the Harry Potter series and Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy owe a large part of their success to fact that they’ve managed to attract adult readerships. And adults still seek to justify the books they enjoyed as children. The Harvard English Department often offers...
...Africa, the cost of inaction could be devastating. Philip E. Clapp, president of the Washington-based National Environmental Trust, warns that Darfur may be "an advance warning" of climate-related apocalypses to come. Take rising sea levels: five of Africa's 10 largest cities are coastal, and 40% of Asia's population of 3.9 billion--1.5 billion people--live within 62 miles of the sea. "Darfur is small by comparison with what is projected," says Clapp. "It may be our last warning before the consequences of climate change become so enormous that they are beyond the capacity of industrialized nations...
Tough, romantic and arrogant, Smith was the original American rebel, which is much of the reason he looms so large in both the making of American mythology and the making of American history. No one can quite agree on what to make of him. "Unblushingly Machiavellian," wrote his biographer, Philip Barbour. In the best of light, Smith was the impolitic outlaw with more grit than tact, the archetypical don't-tread-on-me misfit without whom the fragile experiment at Jamestown would have collapsed within months. What historians can agree on is that he was a victim of his time...
Next time you consider throwing out that beloved collection of Marvel comic books you’ve been collecting since birth, think again. Like the winners of the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting, you too could get paid for your passion. This year’s prizes were awarded to Ph.D. student Drew M. Massey and third-year graduate student Grete T. Viddal in a ceremony at Houghton Library yesterday. The prizes are given annually to one or several individuals whose collection of books or works of art exemplify “the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination?...