As the academic endgame begins, we're all going to be surrounded by lecture notes, study guides, academic papers and - if we're really lucky - long, poorly written books of questionable relevance and dubious interest. In those works will be far too many facts to memorize, models to learn and arguments ...
A few weeks ago, I was sitting around, eating a sandwich and skimming Newsweek when an article caught my eye. It reported that Harvard, in the midst of overhauling its curriculum, had considered having a "Reason and Faith" course - in essence, having some sort of comparative religion requirement for ...
Two weeks ago, I went to the opening of the Sciences Library's new Friedman Study Center - nominally to attend the celebration of Brown's technology and resources, but really to get some low-quality pizza and a free backpack and because I had already seen the "Futurama" episode playing on Cartoon Network ...
The first Tuesday after the first Monday of November 2006, a day that by all accounts dawned bright and clear across much of the United States, may eventually be known as the moment that spelled the beginning of the end of American-style democracy.
Captain James T. Kirk of the Federation Starship Enterprise would be proud; teleportation, once only a topic in the realm of science-fiction, is now a reality.
A week or so ago, I sat in my room watching a muted five-hour baseball game on ESPN while talking to my dad on the phone, and, on occasion, yelling so loud that a friend knocked on the door thinking that I'd just had a heart attack. Why? The Philadelphia Phillies were making a run for the post season, ...
If celestial bodies were sentient and had high-speed Internet access, I think they would be struck by the irony exhibited last month on the blogosphere.
When I was six, I practically lived in the Franklin Institute, one of Philadelphia's oldest science museums and the place where my love of science began. I went back there recently, and among the exhibits and displays I noticed a single, and very large, piece of carbon, iron and nickel labeled only ...
In the last few months, Afghanistan, despite having several thousand American and European troops stationed within its borders, has received relatively little attention from the international media. In the past few weeks, however, with the case of Abdul Rahman, that all changed. Rahman, an Afghani citizen, ...
Last month, President George W. Bush proposed his 2007 federal budget, which, in sum, comes to about $2.77 trillion. This total will surely grow to an even more incomprehensibly large number as supplementary funds for Iraq and Afghanistan are incorporated and Congress adds its own programs and pork ...
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