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...this explains why the scientific community is so nervously excited about epigenetics. In his forthcoming book The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ Is Wrong, science writer David Shenk says epigenetics is helping usher in a "new paradigm" that "reveals how bankrupt the phrase 'nature versus nurture' really is." He calls epigenetics "perhaps the most important discovery in the science of heredity since the gene." (See the top 10 nonfiction books...
...fifth-place showing. But the Crimson has a lot to take away from its effort, namely junior co-captain Chas Gillespie’s fifth-place finish at 24:47.3 in the 8K race. Gillespie’s placement was the highest Harvard finish at Heps since Nathan Shenk-Boright placed fifth in the 2001 event. Sophomore Dan Chenoweth also ran a top-10 race, finishing eighth with a time of 24:52.5.“I was really pleased with how we ran up front,” Saretsky said. “I told Chenoweth to go really...
...said to foster pensively intellectual thinkers. And in history, so many great leaders have been depressive or unpleasant. Abraham Lincoln’s melancholia often led him to “weep in public and cite maudlin poetry”, according to Lincoln biographer Joshua Shenk ’93, also a Crimson editor. He considered suicide as a young man and growing older, he saw the world as governed by unforgiving fates. His law partner William Herndon said of him, “His melancholy dripped from him as he walked.” Lincoln was depressed...
EMILEY F.W. SHENK Pasadena, Calif...
...Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman 9. Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich 10. Lincoln’s Melancholy Joshua Shenk...