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I design and build Mathematical Sculptures, attempting to reveal hidden geometric beauty in office supplies and other modest materials. See these sculpture pages for pictures and mathematical descriptions of this work.

Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) (known to intimates as "Van") was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was continuously affiliated with Harvard University in one way or another, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of mathematics, and finally as a professor emeritus who published or revised several books in retirement.

a new study being published in Tuesday's edition of the journal Current Biology, I now know that his brain probably produces more sleep spindles than mine.

The Berkman Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

Where Innovation and Creativity Converge

My name is danah boyd. In addition to being an expert on social media, I am a doctoral student in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Harvard University is taking the first steps recommended in December by its Arts Task Force, including finding more gallery space in existing buildings and creating a Web portal that will ease access to seeing, hearing, and learning the arts in practice.

Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

“Evolutionary musicology” — the search for music’s origins — has traditionally been the province of anthropologists, but why not employ the techniques of information theory and machine theory to music? “Radcliffe is about crossing boundaries and taking risks, so I think it’s appropriate,” said Godfried Toussaint, Radcliffe’s Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow.

Ma said the vivid dye is at the center of an educational effort developed out of his Silk Road Project, an initiative that aims to promote the transfer of knowledge and ideas through artistic exchange.

Graduate student Aaron Berkowitz worked on an experiment designed to study brain activity during musical improvisation.

Electroacoustic music has a special home in Paine Hall presided over by a world-renowned composer

Kay Rhie the Korean native has pulled together concepts from disparate artistic and cultural traditions as well as a variety of academic disciplines in order to explore and interpret the musical world. Employing art, architecture, literature — even math — as inspiration, Rhie seeks to find ways contemporary music, in the absence of strict form or tonal structure, “can clearly convey its musical goal.”

Learning’s online fate
The digital age challenges teachers, teaching, books

There are a trillion pages on the Internet. In essence, they are the stars and planets and shooting comets of a vast universe of digital knowledge that is expanding every minute.

In The Cut: A Composer's Guide To The Turntables
By Erik Spangler
Published: September 10, 2008

A unique non-traditional chamber ensemble, Hybrid Groove Project is a collaboration, featuring saxophonist Brian Sacawa and composer / turntablist DJ Dubble8 (a.k.a. Dr. Erik Spangler).

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.

The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe two things fervently: that teaching matters and that students can learn.

More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual — from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death experiences. Hear what they have discovered in this controversial field, as the science of spirituality continues to evolve.