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...Another goal of how we look at this course—and it’s sort of a goal that Gen Ed has—is to give students the experience of being a scientist??of thinking like a scientist, collecting data like a scientist, and trying to come up with some conclusions,” Standish says...
...became the first Asian-American elected to the Cambridge City Council in November last year and is concurrently pursuing a double degree at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. And before that, Cheung was a “rocket scientist?? (that was actually his title) at Space Adventures, a Virginia-based company that sends private citizens into space...
...Randall, however, this project meant more than simply seeing her theories become art; she also wanted to capture the spirit of exploration in the opera, a concept she considers to be fundamental to the scientific pursuit of knowledge. Within the opera itself, Randall parallels the nature of a scientist??s calling with the soprano character’s journey through uncharted dimensions, an endeavor which has been a topic of her scholarly research for years...
...Every divide between the Two Cultures is bridgeable, except this one: humanists write out their talks and scientists extemporize.” With his mixture of humorous anecdotes and general charisma, Kurton emerges the clear winner. Modernity, Powers illustrates, shuffles the artist’s and the scientist??s roles: as the artist appeals to reason, the scientist to emotion and narrative.This conflation of the sciences and the humanities is perhaps the most identifiable characteristic about Powers’s work, be it via virtual reality in 2000’s “Plowing the Dark?...
...King—both a statistician and social scientist??has developed an interdisciplinary research community of his own: he helped found the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and is currently serving as its director...