Author: Audrey Goldfarb

  • Memorial Day: A Brief Overview

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    by Daniel Briskin A few years ago, I found myself sitting with friends before class. We were discussing the upcoming exam schedule and our study plans, when one of us pointed out an approaching three-day weekend. Quickly, we realized that none of us knew the cause of the school holiday; we only knew the ever-important…

  • Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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    by Jerry Melchor Read these two scenarios and note how you would answer the questions: 1) The Linda experiment: Linda is thirty-one years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations. Which alternative…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Amanda Martinez, Associate Director of the Women & Science initiative in the Development Office. Country of origin: USA. 1. How long have you been living in New York? I have lived in New York for nine years. 2. Where do you live? I live in Astoria, Queens. 3. Which is…

  • For Your Consideration—Cannes Edition

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    by Jim Keller In this installment, For Your Consideration kicks off the 2013 Oscar season with a look at the films to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. This year’s festival, overseen by Jury President Steven Spielberg, will open on May 15with Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, which will screen out of competition.As I’ve stated…

  • Culture Desk Exhibition and Book Review The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China (at The Asia Society through June 2, 2013) Confucius: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean (translated with notes by James Legge)

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    by Bernie Langs When reading certain philosophers that are difficult to understand, those of us who were never formerly trained as students of the genre often ask, “Why am I putting myself through this?” But in the case of reading Confucius, I know why I put myself through the hard task of reading his works.…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Tiptoe Through the Tulips by Jim Keller Times Square by Elodie Pauwels – http://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com May 2013

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  • Fiscal Cliff: The Next Big Challenge for Science

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    by Christina Pyrgaki A version of this article appeared on The Incubator blog on February 14, 2013. For the last 35 years, the University of Lake Superior has published a list of banished words—words in the English language that are deemed overused, misused, or useless. Topping the 2013 version1 was a term that no American…

  • RU Art—Architecture Edition

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    by Carly Gelfond For years, every morning on my way to work, as I hurried along the white marble pathway leading from the driveway to the buildings on the North end of The Rockefeller University’s campus, I stared uncomprehendingly at the exterior of the long, low building, formally known as Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hall. What…

  • In Our Good Books

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    The reading suggestions have been kindly provided by staff members of the downtown bookstore McNally Jackson. Fated by S.G. Browne From the acclaimed author of Breathers—an irreverent novel about fate, destiny, and the karmic consequences of getting involved with humans. Over the past few thousand years, Fabio has come to hate his job. As Fate,…