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...ability to relate to the world outside his cloistered laboratories is limited, at best. The scientist is a decidedly strange creature, or so our society seems to believe.But scientists would not agree with the public’s estimation, and they would be right not to: Our society??s conception of the scientist is warped beyond any resemblance to reality. Sitting at a lab bench in Boston, on the gray cusp between layperson and scientist, I’ve had a rare opportunity to see scientists from within as well as without. This past January, BBC.com...
...Teacher of General (and indefinable) Studies, the character Hector draws heavily from Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society??; an old-fashioned academic armed with the appropriate quotations for any circumstance. He does not lose sleep over the students’ struggle to again admission to Oxbridge, as he considers testing (and education itself) an enemy of true education. As the hatefully pragmatic principal describes, Hector’s contribution to the students’ characters is “unquantifiable, and thus purposeless in education...
...tendency to see everything in the context of women’s roles—how they are changing, progressing, regressing, or stagnating. And as a result, actions taken by women as personal decisions are generalized as evidence about broader social trends of “women in society?? rather than recognized as choices made by individuals who happen to be female.This confining focus on “women” rather than “woman” often becomes clear when someone who happens to be female ascends to a new position, as occurred with Katie...
...been a defining aspect of my education here. Readers of my column (or anybody who can stand to listen to my rants during recruiting season, for that matter) will know of my wariness about investment banking careers and the like, as well as my hyperbolic readiness to blame all society??s ills on corporate America. In reality, I am not actually disdainful of my peers, many creative and curious souls, who opt for careers in finance. Here’s what’s really bothering me: I find myself increasingly frustrated, disappointed, and enraged by the extent...
...fashion rag-that the investigation that eventually produced Faludi’s best-selling book, “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women,” was born.FIGHTING BACK“Backlash” argued that feminism was being wrongly blamed for a host of social problems. Society??s discomfort with feminism, Faludi wrote, was behind false fears of an “infertility crisis” and mistaken beliefs that single women were unfulfilled. Faludi claimed that women needed more of feminism’s influence, not less.The book won a National Book Critics Circle...