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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...sense of both how the Apple team works and Jobs' unique role in that process. Fry spoke to Jobs about his dreams for the iPad - and got some time to play with it. Lev Grossman, our technology writer, looked at the iPad as part of a historical continuum, noting that it's only the latest version in the long quest for a tablet computer. (See pictures of Steve Jobs' extraordinary career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ushering In a New Era | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...work about the environment. The notion of wilderness as space out side realm of human agency is peculiar to America. It’s almost an arrogant conception of nature—it implies we are not natural, just purely cultural. In Europe, there is more of a continuum, a spectrum of human culture and animal-nature relationships. It’s more subtle than either...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight: 'Sweetgrass' | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...There are a lot of talented visual artists in the sciences,” says Liu. “There’s not a divide between arts and sciences, there’s a continuum. So much of science is beautiful. It is so elegant that biology has turned everything into a network of atoms and neurons that create life...

Author: By Sally K. Scopa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientific Animation Spurs Artistic Creation | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...Define mental disorders along a continuum rather than as binary possibilities. When he spoke at a New York City DSM conference last year, Harvard provost Dr. Steven Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, argued that most mental disorders cannot be seen as discrete all-or-nothing illnesses like leukemia (which you either have or don't). Rather, he said, they should be seen as "continuous with normal," less like leukemia and more like hypertension. Hyman seems to have won the battle here - in particular, social-interaction disorders like autism and Asperger's will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The DSM: How Psychiatrists Redefine 'Disordered' | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

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