I am sitting at the back of a university physics class while the students cluster in small groups around the whiteboards lining the lecture hall, ready to tackle the day’s equation. Work proceeds in fits and starts. There’s a great deal of erasing. As the teams of students begin to...
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The Genius in All of Us
Baseball legend Ted Williams was one in a million, widely considered the most ‘gifted’ hitter of his time. ‘I remember watching one of this home runs from the bleachers of Shibe Park,’ John Updike wrote in The New Yorker in 1960. ‘It went over the first baseman’s head and rose...
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