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Where Columbia Beats Harvard (Wall Street Journal 9-3-10)
In their football rivalry that dates back to 1877, Harvard holds a commanding advantage over Columbia, the Crimson leading 53 to 14. Yet in a contest between their undergraduate curricula, Columbia has more than held its own.
Against Neurotrash by Roger Scruton (Big Questions Online 9-3-10)
Is human uniqueness really nothing more than a neurological phenomenon?
Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the Universe (UK Telegraph 9-2-10)
The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.
A Symposium: What Is Moderate Islam? (Wall Street Journal 9-1-10)
The controversy over a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan has spurred a wider debate about the nature of Islam. We asked six leading thinkers—Anwar Ibrahim, Bernard Lewis, Ed Husain, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Tawfik Hamid and Akbar Ahmed—to weigh in.
Boys 'being held back by women teachers' as gender stereotypes are reinforced in the classroom (UK Daily Mail 9-1-10)
From the article:
Women teachers are holding back boys by reprimanding them for typically male behaviour, according to a study out today.
They are reinforcing stereotypes that boys are ‘silly’ in class, refuse to ‘sit nicely like the girls’ and are more likely to indulge in ‘schoolboy pranks’.
Women teachers may also unwittingly perpetuate low expectations of boys’ academic achievement and encourage girls to work harder by letting them think they are cleverer.
Deep-fried beer invented in Texas (UK Telegraph 8-31-10)
Last year's winner of the Texas state fair fried food competition was a recipe for deep-fried butter.
Book Review of Mark C. Taylor's Crisis on Campus (Wall Street Journal 8-31-10)
Are we living in a designer universe? (UK Telegraph 8-31-10)
The creators of the world were closer to men than to gods, argues John Gribbin
Plato’s Pop Culture Problem, and Ours by Alexander Nehamas (NY Times 8-29-10)
From the article:
This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on a case that may have the unusual result of establishing a philosophical link between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Plato.
“Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?”: America's misguided culture of overwork (Salon 8-25-10)
from the article:
Germany's workers have higher productivity, shorter hours and greater quality of life. How did we get it so wrong?