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...introductory course, History 10a is probably designed for first-year students and to help those undecided in their concentration choice. To excited college freshmen, it proves a huge disappointment. Centering on a textbook instead of original sources, it is sadly reminiscent of high school classes. It might be argued that an overview is indeed helpful since students clearly need to begin the study of history somewhere. But this optimism is an illusion. The image of the past presented in the course is so superficial that it helps students only in the most basic way and does not succeed in introducing...
...least that was the idea. Tinkering with heat-transfer equations, Williams tried to determine how much energy it would take to yield a block of ice. "It had been a while since I'd done real math problems. I had to break out the old textbook," says Williams, a product-development consultant with his own firm, Dissigno, in San Francisco. After eons of number crunching, he hit on the right formula and built a prototype. It isn't very efficient; his device uses 35 times as much energy as an electric fridge to make...
...Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder But the Hunterian is much more than a gallery of the grotesque?its exhibits are educational. Visitors are able to view specimens rarely seen outside of textbook illustrations?such as Hunter's collection of babies, from nine-week-old embryos to fetuses stillborn at nine months. The museum is also testament to the massive medical advances of the past 300 years. The Silver and Steel Gallery juxtaposes clunky antique surgical tools with the sleek instruments used...
...Hunterian is much more than a gallery of the grotesque?its exhibits are educational. Visitors are able to view specimens rarely seen outside of textbook illustrations?such as Hunter's collection of babies, from nine-week-old embryos to fetuses stillborn at nine months. The museum is also testament to the massive medical advances of the past 300 years. The Silver and Steel Gallery juxtaposes clunky antique surgical tools with the sleek instruments used in operating theaters today. Be grateful that the 18th century skull-trepanning brace-and-bit and the brutal mid-19th century "tumor snare" are safely relegated...
...conflict in what the Bible tells me about God and what science tells me about nature. Like St. Augustine in A.D. 400, I do not find the wording of Genesis 1 and 2 to suggest a scientific textbook but a powerful and poetic description of God's intentions in creating the universe. The mechanism of creation is left unspecified. If God, who is all powerful and who is not limited by space and time, chose to use the mechanism of evolution to create you and me, who are we to say that wasn't an absolutely elegant plan...