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davidwade 04/21/2009 01:06 PM Report
Princeton College of Medicine (www.princeton-med.org)
frankb 04/04/2009 03:08 PM Report
The sciences should encourage discovery; they should also encourage dissent. Pertaining to 99 percent of scientists (?) being Darwinists--"majority rules" might be a reality, but it is not an argument. But ideas such as "irreducible complexity" and "complex specified information" in nature are indeed arguments, and the majority cannot make them go away by simply tossing about some Darwinist plausibilities, never showing a true mechanism for macroevolution, and calling IDers names such as "creationists." Darwin's promissory note is past due, and his debt is increasing exponentially as science continues to discover more more of this amazing, unnatural thing in nature--"information."
nwyliejones 03/18/2009 02:02 AM Report
Dear Shirley, I was at a party in Richmond,Virginia. A man who had too much to drink kept loudly telling each person he met that he had degrees from both Harvard and Yale. When he finally got to me, I turned to him and said, "So, you couldn't get into Princeton?" He found no humor in my
words.
I, like you, didn't go to Princeton. I often wish I had studied more and gone there.
Two of my heroes are Ray Bradbury and Richard Feynman. I was recently rereading, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman where he tells about the differences among the cyclotrons of Princeton, MIT, and Cornell. "The Princeton one was in one room, it was complete, absolute chaos. It reminded me of my lab at home. I suddenly realised why Princeton was getting results...they built the instrument; they knew where everything was."
Princeton - a conspiracy of greatness. Your school keeps entering my life.
I keep having Princeton moments.
I went to the TED.com web site to read about the 2009 conference in Long Beach. I was reading about research on how bacteria communicate with autoinduced molecules by quorum sensing. The molecular biologist, Bonnie Bassler, was from Princeton.
Charlie Rose recently interviewed Jeff Bezos. I watched because of the Kindle II and Jeff's rocket. After the show I Googled Jeff Bezos - Phi Betta Kappa, Princeton.
Before I went to the hospital to have a pacsemaker/defibrillator implanted in my chest, I Googled my heart surgeon. He has degrees from John Hopkins, and Charlie, Duke. He started his education with a Magna Cum Laude in biology from Princeton. I relaxed. After my operation when I was returned to my hospital room, my nurse asked me who had operated on me. When I told her she said,
Oh, you had God."
My two favorite magazines are Wired and The New Yorker. I've read two books by the editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick. I've seen him of Charlie Rose. I just checked, Princeton.
I turned on my TV and there is Shirley Tilghman, Princeton, on Charlie Rose.
I just wrote a piece of humor about new twenty-first century medical I.D. tags and braclets. I gave one of the illustrations to my heart doctor. On the tage are the letters: PDP. If you have a medical emergency, for example, in a restaurant when they call for a doctor, they'll find you with a tag with PDP -Princeton Doctor Preferred. My doctor thought it was very funny. His son just graduated from, you guessed it, Princeton.
In my new book, The World's Most Creative (And Dangerous) Quote Book, www.knowords.com, there are many quotations from Princeton graduates and professors.
P.S. Love the green hair story and learning the new word.
"we revisit the decision with a periodicity of 20 years.
"periodicity" 1833 -state of being regularly recurrent. Thank you for the word. I have one for you.
On TED.com today I learned a new word from Dr. Stuart Brown who was speaking on the importance of play. The word is "neoteny" - meaning a retention of immature qualities into adulthood. i.e. being youthful, playing, being human. It's why I loved every second of my 29 years of teaching in Scotland and America. Neoteny...It's why Im writing creativity books. I'm 65 going on 19.
Ray Bradbury, aged 89, no Princeton or any other college. (Learned from living in the library and reading all of his life.) A few months ago Ray was given the French Commander Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, three of his plays just opened, the people behind the movie The Watchman are working on his Illustrated Man, and he just came out with a new collection of his short stories, We'll Always Have Paris. Years ago I got to walk with Ray Bradbury through the Poe Museum in Richmod. He was very neoteny-like.
I quite often mention TED.com or the Charlie Rose Show. Somebody yesterday asked me, "Who is Charlie Rose?" I said he was the world's best interviewer. He has interviewed everyone but God, and he has Him on SpeedDial. You've heard of six degrees of separation; with Charlie it's two degrees. He's more Linked than Reid Hoffman and the 2 Chris Andersons.
"If it squirms it's biology; it it stinks,it's chemistry; if it doesn't work its physis; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics." Magnus Pyke
"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts." Charles Darwin
"Princeton proves that logic and reason can partner with creativity and imagination to enhance the world."
N. Wylie Jones
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the ocean searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. When it finds its sport and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore, so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure." Mihael Scriven
"A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it." Anonymous
Orishanimi 03/17/2009 10:14 PM Report
The suppression of science is not limited to the Christian Right. Academia also suppresses science when it is convenient. World changing New Science and New Measurement papers from the past are still being ignored. I dug them out of my archives and published them again on my website (at http://www.advancedresearchconsultants.com/new_sciences.htm).
Academia is playing "head in the sand" when it comes to the "Physics of Thought". It will radically change their cosmological picture and leave their "Theory of Everything", which does not include THOUGHT, in shambles. As for "Absolute Velocity", the few that respond to my emails, say they can't find anything wrong, but there must something wrong in that paper. Of course there isn't anything wrong except their inability to accept the existence of absolute rest under relativity.
Let's see if Princeton steps up to the plate.
Orishanimi
Advanced Research Consultants, Inc. (not just another think tank)
IRISH 03/17/2009 06:11 PM Report
By way of the previous comments, I believe Princeton is still teaching the sciences. Do not let your negative prejudices insult those science grads who have left to make their way in the world and contribute.
tartufe 03/17/2009 02:14 PM Report
The effete snobbery of the the ivy league schools has been considerably dimmed, with the complicity of the Harvard financial wise guys destroying the worlds commerce with their too-clever-by-fractions gimmickry. Maybe Princeton gets a pass if they're limited to liberal arts. Otherwise to hell with the whole lot.
REMant 03/17/2009 02:13 PM Report
Unfortunately the Darwin-design story is much more complicated than she makes out, and perhaps she needs to do a little of that humanities study, herself. They do humanities well, except, it appears, for economics. Univs see financial aid as necessary not to education, but to realizing future alumni support and to keep their faculty, which will go where the good students are. Don't get the idea that they care about the students per se. I'm afraid that the one thing I agree with Larry Summers about is his remark about women in higher education.