dolphins up close
Hi Unis! I hope you’re all having a fantastic summer. My summer has been filled with beach, ocean, and plenty of dolphins – just the way I like it! I started my summer doing...
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Wader woes
Waders can be a wonderful thing. To some, they’re key to a good day of hunting and fishing. For others, they complete an award-winning costume (meet your director, new Unis!). And for those of...
Keynote speaker nominee: Margaret Humphreys
Another possible good keynote speaker for our “Two Cultures” symposium would be Margaret Humphreys, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine & Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine. Professor Humphreys was affiliated with...
Symposium Speakers – Divinity Magazine article on Ray Barfield, M.D., Ph.D.
winter 2009 15 Ray Barfield’ s Epiphany of Presence LEADING LIVES OF CONSEQUENCE by Jonathan Goldstein Divinity Magazine When Ray Barfield was a second-year resident at Eggleston Children’s Hospital in Atlanta, he learned how...
Stanley Fish, “The Last Professor,” asks “Will the Humanities Save Us?”
Stanley Fish, a former professor of English and Law at Duke, now Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami, and frequent contributor to the editorial pages...
New York Times Contact
The contact I mentioned at the meeting that was interested in hearing more about our Two Cultures symposium was Cornelia Dean, Science Writer and former Science Editor of the New York Times. For a...
Lots of free-time symposium thoughts
From my understanding, C.P. Snow’s critique of the two cultures breaks down into two lines of thought: in an abstract sense, science and art have a great deal to offer one another, and in...
All this talk about choice makes me want to clobber certain blurb writers
Why Girls Sleep Around: The Evolutionary Case for Female Promiscuity In a study of mouse-like marsupials, “survival of babies with promiscuous mothers was almost three times as high as those in the monogamous group.”...
Possible symposium thoughts
I was thinking about how I could convert some of the work I’m already doing (i.e. working in a neuro lab looking to repurpose Alzheimer’s drugs for glaucoma) to something relevant to the Two...
Article on the International Criminal Court
Hey everybody, A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post for Alex de Waal’s blog on Darfur, and I thought I’d paste it in here in case anyone is interested. It’s about the...
