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sheril | March 13, 2008Remember high school? Social pressure and teen angst amid discovering sexuality and a changing physique... perhaps finding your first love while drunk on a cocktail of emotions that defy explanation?
Heck, at 27, I'm still confused now and then. But I suspect these feelings are universal and it's comforting to recognize that no one's quite got it all figured out. So what is it that governs our actions and how do we come to terms with the raw emotions that influence our thoughts and behaviors?
This is what I got to wondering while in NYC where I caught 'Spring Awakening'--the best show I…
cmooney | January 24, 2008
My latest Science Progress column is now up. It's about, well...big stuff. Science, the humanities, their failure to intersect, how to save the world....
All I can say is that it starts like this:
Nearly ten years ago, to get myself officially clear of college, I wrote a senior English essay about parallels between the work of Charles Darwin and the writings of several Victorian novelists. I singled out Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and George Eliot's Middlemarch in particular. It seemed to me that the scientist and the novelists alike sought to address a particularly prevalent human…