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...introduced in 1935--the midst of the Great Depression. Marketing a game about building business empires to a country whose economy has collapsed sounds like some kind of dark conceptual satire, and fittingly, the game has a conflicted attitude toward wealth. On the one hand, it portrays business as Darwinian, random and vaguely criminal. (You do occasional, unexplained stints in jail and can get out by paying somebody off.) On the other hand, it makes real estate moguldom seem homey and attainable. Maybe it's not surprising the game became a hit. It suggested--1930s-populist style--that...
...event” label is Historical Studies B-49, “History of American Capitalism,” which will be taught by Professor Sven Beckert, a nineteenth century Americanist with a predilection for nakedly Marxist historiography. Keep a lookout for B-45, a new course on the Darwinian Revolution, as the department’s few core offerings grow increasingly controversial and relevant.Then for the twentieth century: the most violent events in human history, represented in Historical Studies B by a rare few classes on wars. B-54, “World War II” is taught...
...this year, Darwin will make a triumphant return to Harvard: Mendelsohn used to teach a Darwin Core class, but professor Janet Browne, a new (female!) hire who somehow managed to survive a Summers-era tenure process—will teach Historical Study B-45, “The Darwinian Revolution” in the spring. It turns out she was more fit for the Harvard environment than Larry.Potential concentrators should try out a class to see how they like the concentration and its department—and then revel in the fact that everything from computer science to religion courses...
...fighting a Darwinian struggle here," says Dr. Sandra Read, a dermatologist in Washington and member of the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention. "We're hardwired to look at color-- vividness--as a sign of health and attractiveness and a potential good partner to mate with." A knowledge of the risks can hardly compete with that kind of programming. Like many teens, Kennedy shrugs off the in-the-distance downsides: "It may make my skin wrinkle a little bit earlier, but I'm going to look good while...
...entirety of documented human history—but that, on a biological scale, these standards of aesthetics are, objectively and cross-culturally, unattractive. If you’re into extremely convoluted academic essays full of big words and citations, add Karl Grammar’s essay “Darwinian Aesthetics: Sexual Selection and the Biology of Beauty” to your summer reading list. He discusses how we evolved to think that fertility and health are sexy. Sexual selection in a nutshell: If people did not think that attributes linked to these positive characteristics were attractive, the human race...