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This article examines the view of evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald, who believes that many of the chronic noninfectious diseases in the twentieth century, such as heart disease, cancer and mental illness, are actually caused by infection. Ewald is a professor of biology at Amherst University...
- A new dorm, maybe? // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Oct1992, Vol. 48 Issue 8, p4
Announces Amherst College is the apparent winning bidder for an abandoned Strategic Command hideout built beneath a Massachusetts mountain pass. The bunker, a three-story-high, 40,000 sq. ft. atom bomb-proof structure complete with glassed-in war room, went on the auction block for a minimum...
- BLAME IT ON GERMS! // Ardell Wellness Report;Winter2001, Issue 58, p4
Focuses on the theory of zoologist Paul Ewald on the role of bacteria in heart diseases.
- INVESTIGATING Evolutionary Questions USING ONLINE MOLECULAR DATABASES. Puterbaugh, Mary N.; Burleigh, J. Gordon // American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teache;Aug2001, Vol. 63 Issue 6, p422
Presents a series of exercises which aimed to persuade biology students that molecular systematics in animals is an interesting field of study. Introduction of public molecular databases to students; Discussion on the use of the comparative method to answer evolutionary questions; Materials and...
- Follow Up: Peeling the Onion of Socialism. // Power Line;9/28/2015, p1
The article discusses the views of the Amherst College Marxist Society and argues that this show why the social and economic utopia described in the writings of Karl Marx will never come to fruition.
- Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening. Leonardson, Eric // Conrad Grebel Review;Spring2015, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p151
The author focuses on the art of listening and the way it can transform one's relationship with the surroundings by narrating a personal experience of walking in Amherst College Wildlife Sanctuary in Amherst, Massachusetts where evaluated the sounds made by nature.
- Meghna Sridhar Receives Thomas J. Fellowship. // India -- West;6/6/2014, Vol. 39 Issue 29, pA20
The article focuses on the Thomas J. Fellowship, received by Meghna Sridhar, an Indian American graduate student at Amherst College in Massachusetts, to pursue her research work on "Retracing Rama's Journey: Mapping the Hindu epic 'Ramayana' as a Global Tradition of Mythmaking and Storytelling."
- Cutting up text to make moveable, magnetic diagrams: A way of teaching & assessing biological... Britton, Lynda A.; Wandersee, James H. // American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teache;May97, Vol. 59 Issue 5, p288
Presents the use of moveable, magnetic diagrams as a teaching method and for assessing biological processes. Advantages of using diagrams for students; Procedures in making diagrammatic illustrations; Application of the magnetic cards.
- A new curriculum of ethology & student skills in the Netherlands. Jansen, Bram J.; Dijkstra, Maurits J. // American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teache;Sep97, Vol. 59 Issue 7, p404
Looks at the subject ethology (Behavioral Biology) part of the National Curriculum for Secondary Education in Biology introduced by the Netherlands in 1993-1994. Examination of the main objectives of the Biology curriculum in the Netherlands; Illustrations of the lessons of the curriculum;...
