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...before the epilogue of I Am a Strange Loop, there's a photograph of a sculpture, an in-curving, interlaced metal knot that could almost be a three-dimensional map of one of those recursive, self-referential arguments Hofstadter is so fond of. When I saw it, I was struck not just by how beautiful it was but also by the fact that I'd seen it before: it was made by my sister, who was so deeply inspired by Gdel, Escher, Bach 28 years ago. Purely by chance, it was given to Hofstadter for Christmas one year...
...active learning.” His warning against the “large podium, small chair” mode of teaching, which he deemed “about the worst way to convey information so that it will be remembered and acted on,” struck a chord with some Tufts students in attendance. “I think that the active learning piece was the key,” said Tufts Student Body President Mitch Robinson. “He hit it right on the head with that.” Some students objected that the Harvard professor?...
...revolution in France.They also befriend their neighbor, the enigmatic Blake, whom they have spied playing a prelapsarian Adam to his wife’s Eve in the garden.Blake shares with the children his completed collection “Songs of Innocence,” and Maggie is struck by the opposition she sees between her own life experience and the pastoral idyll of childhood in the poems—mothers gazing lovingly upon their sleeping infants and so on—and the hardships that come with age. Having experienced hardship in Piddletrenthide, Jem is not so convinced...
...Integrating Europe Your report on the problem of integrating minorities into European societies was very timely [Feb. 26]. Some of the solutions Jumana Farouky advocated, however, struck me as unrealistic. As I see it, multiethnic and multiracial societies have not worked well anywhere else. The secret to peaceful coexistence is integration based on assimilation, with the minority group ready to become part of mainstream society, adopting the host nation's traditions and - above all - its language. This is what lies behind the successful U.S. concept of the melting pot, whereas the competing ideal of the salad bowl has mostly failed...
...college nickname was “Gassy.” A special report about the watering-down of recess activities to avoid damage to self-esteem devolves into a rant by the fake “doctor,” complaining that his patient is now impotent because he struck out in Little League. An interview with a fake terrorism expert leaves the anchors and the expert stumped about the link between different terrorist cells in London. Everyone spouts out a long list of the Islamic names that were present in each cell, but Islam can?...