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...have no talent, you have no talent. If people like us are ever going to succeed in a profession, we have to find a topic that no body else in the world is willing to study, so you can be the best at it,” Levitt recalled his father telling...
...alumni like Feehan, some undergraduates will also have the chance to participate in the exhibit. Prior to the event, Wing and fellow VES alumna M. Elizabeth Glynn ’03 will conduct several cooperative workshops with undergraduates in which participants will discuss methods of documentation—a topic that has interested Wing since she studied photography as a student in VES. Her plan is to explore major questions about the relationship between performance, documentation, and their role in a museum environment. The seminars will culminate with the undergraduates deciding how to document Bizarre Animals...
Compare the essays of “Silk Parachute” to those of McPhee’s “New Yorker” colleague, Malcolm Gladwell: although the writers share an interest in people, their processes are polar opposites. McPhee starts with a detailed discussion of a topic, be it “eccentric food” or Europe’s chalk country, and allows his topic to elucidate a truism about society with such finesse that it seems accidental. Rather than spend pages reveling in the significance of what he has found—like Gladwell?...
...Endeavour paper points to Iberian folklore on suicidal scorpions; when surrounded by flames, they will sting themselves in the back. In the early 1880s in Britain, a debate on the topic blossomed after a London zoologist placed a scorpion in a glass container, administered chloroform and claimed he observed the animal trying to sting itself. To prove him wrong, the psychologist Conwy Lloyd Morgan set up a series of traps for the critters. "He surrounded them with fire, condensed sunbeams on their backs, heated them in a bottle, burned them with phosphoric acid, treated them with electric shocks and subjected...
...That's actually not so awful, economically speaking. Innovation and increased efficiency are the lifeblood of any economy. But it does mean that as we tackle the topic of creating jobs, we must realize that the sustainable ones will be those that build from a human being's unique abilities, like problem solving and creativity. If we want to encourage high-quality-job creation, we need to find a way to enable economic evolution. We need to set the stage for companies to create tomorrow's goods and services, and we need to be prepared to support workers in their...