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...There’s a link between clear speaking and clear thinking-when you reach the point that you can teach something to someone, that’s when you understand it,” Maggor says, explaining that the way scientists, politicians, and friends communicate affects their work and relationships...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Will Speech Fade? | 5/24/2010 | See Source »

...biggest thing that I gained was outside [the] academic or professional,” he adds. “It was being able to understand what home means for one billion people in the world...

Author: By Sirui Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Pursue Programs in China | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

...love my parents, I love the way they raised me, even though they pushed that doctor thing. I understand they really just want the best for their children, and to them a doctor is the best you can be. If they hadn’t pushed me, I wouldn’t be here,” she says. “But if I took Women and Gender Studies, my parents would demolish me,” she adds with a laugh...

Author: By Victoria L. Venegas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seeking a Practical Education | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

...author wants to draw the wrong conclusion from the fact that simplified models get things wrong (even dramatically wrong). No one denies that we need to better understand and communicate the limitations of data, that it is crucial to guard against unjustified trust in our preferred models (perhaps the author forgets that before the crisis, there were plenty of critics of the efficient market hypothesis who were using data and simulation to predict pathological behavior in asset markets). But a data-driven, formal approach to making policy decisions is quite frankly the best we can do and therefore essential...

Author: By Emad Atiq | Title: LETTER: Economics and Volcanic Ash | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

...understand that they can consult their books. The effort is to make them synthesize [the course material],” he said...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty Awarded Teaching Prizes | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

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