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This fun fact comes from a recent study by scientists at Germany??s Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, which set out to test whether behaviors observed in the wild were the result of cooperation or coincidentally parallel self-interest. A chimpanzee was placed in a cage, outside of which was a plank with a piece of food. By pulling on two ropes simultaneously, the chimp could pull the food close enough to reach...
...teacher at Columbia, the late Max Weinreich, took time off from his linguistic research during the Second World War to write “Hitler’s Professors,” documenting the participation of some of Germany??s leading academics in the Nazi movement. This book should lay to rest the notion that there is any necessary correlation between the kind of intelligence that wins Nobel Prizes and the kind of political humility that democracy requires. In fact, because they consider themselves intellectually superior to the rest of the population, academics tend to be uncommonly impatient...
Students in History of Science 125: “Cultures of Experiment” learn about the intersection of science and culture just as they might in any other departmental class. But they also hear about Germany??s Halloween celebrations, beer festivals, and regional dynamics.That is because the professor of this nine-person class is Henning Schmidgen, who is visiting Harvard for a year from the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany.“Professor Schmidgen is definitely one of the most unique professors I’ve ever had,” says Alfredo...
...Africa, when native rebels believed a magic potion would make them invulnerable to German bullets. (It didn’t). So mulled over is the history of the event that panelists could only discuss how elephant hunters had occupied a “liminal space” or how Germany??s African soldiers had devised an honor-based rigeur amongst themselves.It evoked a time when I was digging through the University of Dar es Salaam library’s stacks. I found myself in a section filled with colonial travelogues, which had been left untouched for many years...
...freely accessible to all. “I’ve certainly started to see the value of multi-disciplinary approaches to complicated topics, and I hope that this will continue to be emphasized in the department,” said Campbell. This semester, Harvard has brought in Germany??s top medieval archaeologist, Joachim Henning, as a visiting professor in history to teach the first-ever undergraduate course in medieval archaeology at Harvard—History 1140, “History of Medieval Archaeology.” Another visiting professor, Alan R. Cooper of Colgate University, is teaching...