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...Summers approached a confrontation with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, his senior staff plotted a strategy to keep the president—and the president’s remarks on women in science??as far from the limelight as possible, according to three people familiar with the strategy. It would only partially succeed...
...seconds.” Malan also developed the original Shuttleboy, a Unix program on fas.harvard.edu, in 1998. This program allows users to access full route information. Malan wrote in an e-mail that he conceived of the idea after taking Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science?? and Computer Science 51: “Introduction to Computer Science II”. “He [Shuttleboy] was actually the successor to “Menuboy”, who was a Unix program I wrote for my roommates so that they could check the day?...
This supposed defense of “women in science?? simultaneously implies that women have no agency in their own decisions about their studies and also emphasizes the “woman” over the “science.” A male chemist is a scientist, and his achievements are to his own credit. A female chemist is a “woman in science.” She has something to prove, and her achievements go to the credit of women in her field, or even in general.It is worth adding that these arguments...
...parents have been saying for decades speaks poorly about the rationality of Harvard’s best and brightest. At the very least, the growing swarm of economics concentrators should be able to stem the staying-up-late stalemate. One of the fundamental tenets of their “science?? is that humans—eventually—can learn from their mistakes. I hope my children can learn from mine. John N. Hastrup ’06 is a government concentrator in Dunster House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Therein lies the problem: guessing isn’t science. Processes of inquiry—especially those of science??are only productive when they yield valid, reliable results, and only strong evidence can provide that necessary validity. Anyone can guess anything they want, and perhaps those ideas have a place in a philosophy classroom. But in a modern science classroom, ideas are worthless if they can’t be defended empirically, which the so-called “theory” of intelligent design cannot...