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...Japanese woman with a huge scar on her neck - Brown screwed the dial one notch past quirky there. Langdon is also accompanied by another in Brown's line of "attractive, dark-haired," essentially interchangeable brainy-hottie heroines, who happens to be a noetic (oh, God, I typed it again) scientist. (See TIME's top picks for fall 2009 entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Is Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...average person. Recipient Christopher Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's department of global ecology and a biology professor at Stanford University who shared in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In recent years, Field has become the go-to scientist in his field, the one who perhaps understands - and can explain - best how man-made global warming will change our planet and the life that depends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heinz Awards Go to Environmental Champions | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...science acknowledges gender can be a continuum, sport - which requires like to compete against like - does not. A decision on where to draw the line, and whether Semenya is blessed by natural gifts or unfairly endowed with a freakish biological advantage, can only be subjective, says Malcolm Collins, chief scientist at the Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine in Cape Town. From a scientific point of view, "it would be very difficult to draw a clear line in the sand and say this is it," he says. (See 100 Olympic athletes to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home of South Africa's Gender Bending Runner | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...science in a fun way, different from what you would normally expect,” Valente said. Before working at Harvard, Engert was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, and University of California, Berkeley, studying tadpole sensory processing. “Professor Engert is a scientist of remarkable scope, having made important contributions to two distinct fields, visual system development and motor system function,” said Earth and Planetary Sciences Chair Jeremy Bloxham in a press release. “A highly creative researcher, his publications are consistently of the highest quality...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Engert Receives Tenure in MCB | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...preview of a formidable Soviet biologist who loses her loved ones, first to the cruelty of communism and then to the charm of capitalism; a conflicted IMF negotiator who “comport[s] herself like a government bond”; and a dangerously dispassionate Hungarian computer scientist who attracts men easily and abandons them even more effortlessly. All three face the challenge of watching others be engulfed by impulsive greed, betrayed by the very emotional defenses they once sought to construct. The novel’s failure, however, to carefully develop these individual subplots results in a storyline wholly...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Ash' is Dust on the Page | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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