You might think that reading ahead can only be positive. By knowing in advance what youre meant to read, why shouldnt you just read it now? Erin E. Templeton writes in ProfHacker, the act of reading ahead is often exceptionally damaging to our work together in the classroom. Templeton, an English professor, notes that many [...]
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The scientific integrity of one 19th century Philadelphia scientist has been reaffirmed—but at the decided expense of a prominent late 20th century scientist who had discredited him. Such was the conclusion reached by a group of anthropologists working collaboratively to re-examine, and perform anew, scientific measurements on a famous collection of nearly 1,000 skulls from [...]
PHILADELPHIA — For tens of thousands of years, the genomes of malaria parasites and humans have been at war with one another. Now, University of Pennsylvania geneticists, in collaboration with an international team of scientists, have developed a new picture of one way that the human genome has fought back. The international team was led [...]
Ticket orders are being accepted by University Theatre at California State University, Fresno for the 2011-12 season, which begins with “Trenchcoat in Common, a blog turned into a play” opening Sept. 30 at the John Wright Theatre in the Speech Arts Building. The 2009 drama by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is about a neighbor using modern [...]
PHILADELPHIA — Two University of Pennsylvania engineers have proposed the possibility of two-dimensional metamaterials. These one-atom-thick metamaterials could be achieved by controlling the conductivity of sheets of graphene, which is a single layer of carbon atoms. Professor Nader Engheta and graduate student Ashkan Vakil, both of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering in Penn’s [...]