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This year’s honorees are Leo Damrosch, Bernbaum professor of literature; Peter L. Galison ’77, Mallinckrodt professor of the history of science and of physics; Robert Kiely, Loker professor of English and former master of Adams House; Stuart M. Shieber ’81, McKay professor of computer science; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Phillips professor of early American history; and Gregory Verdine, professor of chemical biology...
...Psychiatrist Stuart Twemlow, director of the Erik H. Erikson Institute for Education and Research in Stockbridge, Mass., notes that a significant subgroup of the school shooters consists of kids who come from relatively affluent families, who are academically above average, if not gifted, and who rarely have the qualities expected of violent offenders--such as a history of substance abuse or mental disorder. In Twemlow's view, this is no coincidence. "Bullying is more common in affluent schools probably than in the low-income schools," he says. It is spurred, he believes, by "the dynamics that come...
...they're shortsighted, say the experts on play. Alvin Rosenfeld, co-author of The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap, holds an old-fashioned view of play: it's joyful and emotionally nourishing. Stuart Brown, a retired psychiatrist and founder of the Institute for Play in Carmel Valley, Calif., believes that too little play may have a dark side. What Brown calls "play deprivation" can lead, he says, to depression, hostility and the loss of "the things that make us human beings...
...life. But when heterosexual women do turn their thoughts from the fridge to the bed, neither man nor masturbation is going to be a prerequisite much longer. There have been several reports lately of what might be called immaculate orgasms. The weekly New Scientist recently cited a discovery by Stuart Meloy, a U.S. surgeon. Meloy was putting electrodes in a woman's spine to switch off pain signals in nerves, with the patient awake to help him locate the right spots. "I was placing the electrodes and suddenly the woman started exclaiming emphatically," said Meloy. "I asked her what...
...they're shortsighted, say the experts on play. Alvin Rosenfeld, co-author of The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap, holds an old-fashioned view of play: it's joyful and emotionally nourishing. Stuart Brown, a retired psychiatrist and founder of the Institute for Play in Carmel Valley, Calif., believes that too little play may have a dark side. What Brown calls "play deprivation" can lead, he says, to depression, hostility and the loss of "the things that make us human beings...