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...adopted the stories that have been shared by my parents and siblings over the phone as my own memories. Once, at a precious 14 months, Mariam was in the living room when she disappeared from view. After some franctic searching, my sister found her hiding in a corner of the dining room struggling to poop into her diaper. The polite yet constipated baby didn’t want to do the deed in front of the family. Adorable, non? The shitting business makes for good story-telling. When they were getting potty trained last year, Mariam would accompany Adam...
...Dawkins explains that morality developed in a similar vein. Morality—in the form of kindness, altruism, generosity, empathy, and pity—is nothing more than “misfirings, Darwinian mistakes: blessed, precious mistakes,” he explains. Morality is the by-product of kin altruism, which was once beneficial to the survival of our prehistoric ancestors. Unlike religion however, morality is a beneficial result of evolution...
...with time being a precious commodity for most Harvard undergrads, why are all these kids dedicating hours upon hours of their free time to the campaign trail...
...earth; that humans are primates; that the mind is the activity of an organ that runs by physiological processes; that there are methods for ascertaining the truth that can force us to conclusions which violate common sense, sometimes radically so at scales very large and very small; that precious and widely held beliefs, when subjected to empirical tests, are often cruelly falsified.I believe that a person for whom this understanding is not second-nature cannot be said to be educated. And I think that some acknowledgment of the intrinsic value of scientific knowledge should be a goal of the general...
...initiatives that have begun to address these shortcomings haven’t been cheap—and more will be needed to make further progress. Harvard’s president must compel the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to spend its precious dollars on priorities that the Faculty itself might not share. (In addition, the president must be willing to spend his or her own discretionary funding on undergraduates, as Summers did on several occasions.) Conversely, FAS’ bleak financial outlook must not justify an attempt to cut existing programs, let alone hamper new ones?...