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After more than a decade without significant change, Harvard's Chemistry Department, home to four Nobel laureates and the site of such historic feats as the synthesis of cholesterol, is now mulling significant changes in its curriculum, teaching methodology and faculty.
Powell: There is always a certain amount of distrust of politics and politicians and of Washington. In this age you see this often untidy process of democracy where there is an explosion in media coverage and where politics has become a national spectator sport. The American people have been relieved...
The doctor is in. it took more than 20 years, but after six successful books and numerous articles by and about him, neurologist Oliver Sacks, 61, has arrived (all 210 burly pounds of him) as the latest two-cultures hero, a man of science as well as a man of...
Lanier is in familiar territory: he is widely considered to be the father of virtual reality. Though his name is not yet common fare on the cocktail-party circuit of the cultural elite, he is a star of an astoundingly energized new movement of musicians and visual artists who are...
While not exactly best-seller material, The History and Geography of Human Genes is a remarkable synthesis of more than 50 years of research in population genetics. It stands as the most extensive survey to date on how humans vary at the level of their chromosomes. The book's firm...