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...there anything to this idea? Perhaps. There is no question that many successful people--not just scientists and engineers but writers and lawyers as well--possess a suite of traits that seem to be, for lack of a better word, Aspergery. The ability to focus intensely and screen out other distractions, for example, is a geeky trait that can be extremely useful to computer programmers. On the other hand, concentration that is too intense--focusing on cracks in the pavement while a taxi is bearing down on you--is clearly, in Darwinian terms, maladaptive...
When an author breaches that core, as Carol S. Dweck does in her contribution “Beliefs that Make Smart People Dumb,” the insights can be weighty and provocative. She posits that smart people behave stupidly precisely because they possess great intelligence. Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, is a prime example. The author’s creation was famous for debunking supernatural phenomenon by giving them rational explanations. Doyle himself, however was a disciple of the supernatural and a great believer in the fantastical apparitions revealed during seances. Though Holmes would argue that these...
...Revolutionary America,” served tea in his section about the Boston Tea Party, but he doesn’t think that sipping tea will transmit history like a coursepack can. “I think reenactments have a place as a national or cultural ritual, yet they possess immense limitations as teaching tools,” he says...
...high school diploma should never be contingent on one standardized test. Students who possess several luxuries—wealth, additional time to prepare or easy access to quality tutoring—have an unfair advantage over those who lack such resources. In addition, all public school students would be required to pass it, including students with disabilities and those who have limited English proficiency. And MCAS will test specific information that is included in the state’s curriculum frameworks, but which have yet to be effectively taught many classrooms—which punishes students by testing them...
...houses are aligned in three rows, all converging to create a focal point for human interaction. However, the houses themselves are window-slitted modernist bunkers of concrete and metal that hardly seem conducive to actual human living. Drab and squashed, the dwellings are dwarfed by the surrounding countryside and possess a disquieting uniformity because they are all facing—literally, because they resemble masks with hats pulled down over their eyes—in one direction. While it is ostensibly a living development, it would have perhaps been better to keep Tharsis as a mental exercise...