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...book seems liveliest when Collins turns his guns from atheists on the left to creationists and intelligent designers on the right, urging the abandonment of what he feels are overliteral misreadings of Scripture. "I don't think God intended Genesis to teach science," he says, arguing that "the evidence in favor of evolution is utterly compelling." He has little patience with those who say evolution is just a theory, noting that in his scientific world the word theory "is not intended to convey uncertainty; for that purpose a scientist would use the word hypothesis." The book is hard on intelligent...
Einstein wanted to be with his son to teach him math, but that would not always be possible, he lamented. Perhaps they could do it by mail? "If you write me each time what you already know, I'll give you a nice little problem to solve." He sent a toy for each of his sons, along with an admonition to brush their teeth well. "I do the same and am very happy now to have kept enough healthy teeth...
...Shleifer is set to return to Harvard this academic year after a year-long leave of absence. In addition to a class on psychology and economics, he will co-teach a new course entitled “Economics 2470: Law and Economics.” He will also teach “Economics 980a: Political Economics,” according to the FAS course catalog...
...economist’s alleged role in defrauding the U.S. government while he served as an adviser to Russia, people close to the committee said. While the content of the report was not immediately clear, Shleifer could face penalties as severe as the revocation of his tenured teaching appointment, according to two individuals who have spoken with members of the Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC), the eight-member group investigating the matter.Following standard procedure, the committee forwarded the results of its months-long investigation to interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles last month, the two individuals said. Interim...
...Laughs] In 2000, Gary hired an ecologist, and Eco Posse was her idea--a group of people to teach people what it means to make a difference. Simple things, like putting in more recycling bins. One day she came into the office and said, "Why do we have this shrink wrap on the caddies that hold our bars?" And we had absolutely no idea. It was just the way we'd been doing things. So we took the plastic off. We saved 90,000 lbs. of plastic and $450,000 a year...