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...Featured speakers include GailDines, assistant professor, Wheelock College,"Pornography and the Media"; Mary Harvey,director, Victims of Violence Program, CambridgeHospital, "Living in a Violent Society"; DavidKennedy, research fellow, KSG, "Children andGuns"; Susan Moses, deputy director, Center forHealth Communication, Harvard School of PublicHealth, "Squash It Media Campaign"; Ronald Slaby,senior scientist, Education Development Center andlecturer, Harvard University, "Men's ViolenceAgainst Women." Registration is required. Call495-4495 or 496-5213 for more information...
Though Feyerabend's comments may be rather extreme for an "anti-scientist," the sentiment has definitely worked its way into mainstream thought...
...astronomical brethren too, but his beef is just the opposite of Lauer's. The Carnegie Observatories astronomer has spent much of his nearly 40-year career trying to measure the age of the universe; it's a task he inherited from his mentor Edwin Hubble, the legendary scientist who discovered that the universe is expanding and that galaxies exist beyond the Milky Way. For decades, Sandage's results have suggested that the cosmos is 15 billion to 20 billion years old or thereabouts. That fits beautifully with cosmological theories-but almost nobody believes him anymore. Instead they're listening...
...used at Dalton. Fewer still have the resources to support a complex schoolwide network (though increasingly schools can connect to existing networks). Still, anyone who has seen what technology can do for learning is convinced of its future. ``There's something inevitable about this,'' says Christina Hooper, a Distinguished Scientist at Apple Computer and an expert on educational technology. She believes it may take 10 years, or more likely 20, before the technology is widespread, but the prophets of the post-Gutenberg age in education will finally be proved right...
...great convenience and relatively humble working should not obscure the fact that it is in the vanguard of the information age, no less than the Internet, interactive TV or video teleconferencing. By applying technology to people's everyday needs, it epitomizes what Yale University computer scientist David Gelertner calls ``the true potential of the information superhighway: making everyday life for most people somewhat easier and less irritating...