How I harnessed the wind: William Kamkwamba. Building a windmill: William Kamkwamba. Spaghetti sauce: Michael Gladwell. Gladwell: New Yorker archive. Gladwell's Blog. In Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, Steven Pinker responds to my description of him as occupying the “lonely ice floe of IQ fundamentalism”: What Malcolm Gladwell calls a “lonely ice floe” is what psychologists call “the mainstream.” In a 1997 editorial in the journal Intelligence, 52 signatories wrote, “I.Q. is strongly related, probably more so than any other single measurable human trait, to many important educational, occupational, economic and social outcomes.” Similar conclusions were affirmed in a unanimous blue-ribbon report by the American Psychological Association. . .
A few things here are worth mentioning: First, the editorial in question made a number of other arguments that, I think, most observers would agree fall on one end of the nature-nurture continuum: that all IQ tests measure the same thing, that heredity is more important than environment in determining it, that group differences are relatively unaffected by schooling or socioeconomic factors. Teach every child about food - Jamie Oliver. Jamie Oliver | Official site for recipes, books, tv, restaurants and food revolution. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Episode 1 Part 1. Perfect Omelette. Feeding the whole world - Louise Fresco. Towards a science of simplicity - George Whitesides. George M. Whitesides. George M. Whitesides (born August 3, 1939) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography,[2] microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology.
Whitesides is also known for publishing his "outline system" for writing scientific papers.[3] As of December 2011[update], he has the highest Hirsch index rating of all living chemists.[4] Education and academic career[edit] Education[edit] Whitesides attended secondary school at Phillips Andover and graduated in 1957. Research at MIT[edit] Whitesides began his independent career as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 and remained there until 1982. Research at Harvard[edit] In 1982, Whitesides moved his laboratory to the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University, his alma mater. Current research[edit] Policy and public service[edit] References[edit] The Whitesides Research Group. Simple, lifesaving designs - Amy Smith. Amy B. Smith. Amy Smith is an American inventor, educator, and founder of D-Lab at MIT.
She works to develop technologies and build creative capacity internationally. Early life and education[edit] Amy Smith was born in Lexington, Massachusetts,[1] on 4 November 1962.[2] Smith's father, Arthur Smith, was an electrical engineering professor at MIT.[3] Arthur Smith took his family to India for a year when Amy was growing up while he worked at a university there.[3] "I think that set a lot of things in motion for her. It's very different from growing up in a Boston suburb", he said.[3] Smith says that being exposed to severe poverty as a child made her want to do something to help kids around the world.[4] "Living in India is something that stayed with me—I could put faces on the kids who had so little money Smith received her Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1984.[3] Smith returned to MIT after the Peace Corps to get her master's degree in mechanical engineering.[3] Inventions[edit]