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...DIED. JOHN POPLE, 78, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing a computer program that helps scientists better predict chemical reactions; in Chicago. An Englishman, Pople taught himself calculus from a discarded textbook while in high school and became the first in his family to go to college. His program is still used in a wide variety of studies, ranging from the effects of pollutants on the ozone layer to the testing of drugs for the treatment of HIV. When he was knighted last year, the self-effacing Pople said that his achievements as a scientist...
...published in 1992. “Part of the reason I wrote The Blank Slate was to address people like this woman who thought that the very premise that the mind is a function of the brain is upsetting,” Pinker says. The book is neither textbook nor scientific proposal, study or paper. In good Pinker fashion, it’s aimed at scientific laymen...
...Jaded Thesis-Writing Senior, usually hailing from Social Studies or Hist and Lit, who stumbles in at 17 minutes past the hour (if at all) draped in flannel pajamas with artfully styled bed-head hair; and of course The Pass/Fail Dilettante, who uses his thick-as-a-doorstop textbook as a primitive form of camouflage, working under the assumption that if he can’t see the TF, the TF probably can?...
...your hard-earned dough has been made easier through Harvard Printing and Publishing Service’s (HPPS) new online ordering system is nice, but only as the new system that allows me to pay my parking tickets on the web is nice. It is a natural extension of textbook-induced early-term poverty to wonder why these prices are so exorbitantly high. The answer is not simple, but thanks to a developing collection of exciting new ideas, the resolution may be soon at hand...
...have homework due tomorrow and [there is] a textbook I don’t have,” Santistevan said...