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...Indeed, the music varied from the thin, attenuated notes delivered in Bohuslav Martinu’s “Variations on a Slovak Theme (1959)” to the pleasingly flamboyant pizzicato of Claude Debussy’s “Sonata for Cello and Piano...
...authors suggest the text was a polemic--and a losing one, since martyrdom became a pillar of the church. But its angry tone supports a favorite theme of Pagels': that not all early believers embraced doctrines now accepted as handed down directly from Jesus...
...Those themes--recursive loops and the physical origins of consciousness--get braided together in I Am a Strange Loop in unexpected ways. The book returns to a theme that Hofstadter first sounded in Gdel, Escher, Bach: exploring the nature of the human mind through the work of Gdel, who demonstrated in 1931 that conventional mathematics, which we think of as a supremely logical and consistent system, is actually capable of making all sorts of strange, paradoxical, self-referential statements about itself. For example, Gdel discovered there are mathematical statements that, while true, can never be proved...
...Pedagogy was a key theme of Summers’ speech last night. He said that while other universities constantly attempt to poach accomplished researchers from Harvard, “I can’t recall a single case when an effort was made to raid Harvard for a candidate who was an outstanding teacher...
...issues that one doesn’t usually think of in relationship to addiction, such as insurance discrimination and expanding insurance opportunities for medication-assisted recovery. The 90-minute centerpiece for the project features nine separate segments, each directed by a different documentary filmmaker and covering a different theme, ranging from emergency room trauma to parent-child relationships. David Rosenbloom, the director of Join Together—a Boston University-based program that works to develop community-based responses to alcohol and drug abuse—said he respected the film for going beyond the individual harm that substance abusers...