Florence Nightingale
Here is an excerpt from an article by Denise Grady for The New York Times in which she discusses an exhibition, “Extraordinary Women in Science and Medicine,’ that offers up little-known details about female pioneers in science, nine of whom…
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Gregory Berns occupies the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics, serves as Director of the Center for Neuropolicy, and is a professor in both psychiatry and economics at Emory University. He earned an A.B. degree at Princeton University (his major was…
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Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently Gregory Berns Harvard Business School Press (2008) I recently checked the Online Etymological Dictionary and learned that an iconoclast is a “breaker or destroyer of images” from the Late Greek word eikonoklastes.…
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Pure Goldwynisms
With all due respect to Yogi Berra, Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974) is notorious for his misuses of the language. He was a Jewish Polish American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several…
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