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...think we will almost certainly see hundreds if not thousands of pieces of tracked debris," says Mark Matney, an orbital-debris scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center. "It all depends on how efficient the impact was. Was it a glancing blow or a full body...
...have is that science operates in a reductionist way, and if you try to understand a spiritual experience or a religious experience from the science perspective, ultimately you are going to reduce it to the coursing of neurochemicals in the brain. And while that may be satisfying to a scientist, it's anathema to a theologian, which illustrates the limits of science. There are some questions for which science can't provide an adequate answer...
...photographer Rosamond Purcell understands it, a common misconception plagues the relationship between scientists and artists: when these two fields interact, “an artist is regarded as a bull in a china shop,” Purcell says. However, two photography exhibits currently on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History—Purcell’s “Egg and Nest” and Amanda Means’ “Looking at Leaves”—demonstrate the way that artists can reveal the aesthetics of the natural world, rather than simply record...
...some people I knew in order to draw broad conclusions about the human condition—or, at least, the human condition at Harvard. “They’re intimidating,” one of my historian friends said, when asked why he had never dated a scientist. There were the logistical issues, of course: their long hours in the lab, their multiple problem sets, all precluded the possibility of his getting to know girls in the sciences. And scientists get so uppity, he said, just because the questions they ask always had answers. “They...
...Darwin.” Melissa M. Lo, also a first-year graduate student in the course, said that evolution did not achieve its status as universal knowledge until biologists years later expounded the idea. Her role in the exhibition involved showcasing the work and writings of one such chief scientist, Harvard Professor Ernst W. Mayr—otherwise known as the “Darwin of the 20th century.” The exhibit is to not only to “show just that Darwin was this bright guy, but how he has networked into so many cultural aspects...