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Fourth, the study of what we call “reason?? and “faith” involves meeting influential, challenging, and exciting thinkers, some of them quite outside the intellectual worlds we know best. Who are today’s great thinkers? What do they have to say to their communities...
...from the rubbish, scientists will have no way of knowing which discoveries and experiments merit their time and interest. Instead, they will spend inordinate amounts of time wading through the quicksand of junk science to get to truly interesting work. Peer reviewers are chosen as peer reviewers for a reason??unlike the hoi polloi that roam the Internet, they have the knowledge and experience to judge scientific research on its merits. Furthermore, the peer review process strengthens papers, as authors are forced to defend their research’s weaknesses—without peer review the temptation...
...most open in recent memory. “Inevitably, every search is a response to the previous search,” writes Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition Howard E. Gardner ’65 in an e-mail. “Especially so when—for whatever reason??the previous search led to a failed presidency.”The faculty group includes 13 professors, representing all of Harvard’s schools and a range of disciplines within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The student committee is comprised of 14 students drawn from across...
Harvey has noted that people often have trouble with this saying and for good reason??neither one is actually true! The idea that you should overeat to fight a cold and resist food when you have a fever dates as far back as 1574, when a dictionary maker named Withals wrote, “Fasting is a great remedie[sic] of feuer...
...feel compelled to offer financial incentives to their students in exchange for their promptness. Attending lecture should not be viewed as an unsavory job, for which students—or rather, employees—should be financially compensated for their labor. Attending class is not compulsory for this very reason??it is assumed (wrongly?) that students will come to class without having been bribed, because it is they—not their professors—who reap the benefits of lecture...