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Last spring, President Summers stumbled onto a feminist hornets’ nest when he posited that perhaps there are fewer female scientists because of “inherent differences” between men and women. The resulting swarm not only managed to avoid considering the possibility that he may have had a point, but insisted on an even more offensive explanation. The underlying assumption was as follows: Why would a woman not become a scientist? Because she has been convinced that she is not smart enough. Why would a man not become a scientist? Because he doesn?...
...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...
...just about perfectly. It’s mostly some bewildered traipsing about in the woods, but thankfully directors Ted (the bassist) and Tom (a bassist in another Swedish band) Malmros avoid the high-brow, high-budget traipsing of Coldplay’s nerdy video for “The Scientist.” No sir, it’s just good, clean (cheap) fun for THIS European pop-rock getup. As it turns out, this Malmros team is responsible for ALL of the group’s videos, which combine a delightful low-budget honesty with some startlingly artistic cinemachoreotography...
...group of scientists have petitioned the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences regarding what they call an omission among this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, half of which Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber ’45-’46 won for his contributions to quantum optics.Led by Ranjit Nair, the director of the Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science in New Delhi, India, the authors of the petition contend that E. C. George Sudarshan, professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, should have been recognized along with...
...just a humble social scientist, so I don’t understand all of this,” said Summers during his remarks, “but I am an economist and I know that an investment that doubles 18 months later is a really great investment...