[My] lecture on the aetiology of hysteria at the Psychiatric Society met with an icy reception from the asses, and from Kraft-Ebing [the distinguished professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vienna] the strange comment: “It sounds like a scientific fairy tale...
It is impossible to overrate the importance of the Saviour's words for His disciples; it is easy for men to misapprehend them, as those do who lower and narrow the word to separation for ministerial service.* But He had at heart a more personal and intimate want, that the disciples shou...
As old Fuller says, the writers have a hair hanging to the nib of their pen. Their shortness does not prevent them from being tiresome. They recall the French wit to whom a friend showed a distich: “Excellent,” he said; “but isn’t it rather spun out?” Lichtenberg, a professor...
Robert Murphy, executive director of the Havey Institute for Global Health and a professor of medicine in infectious diseases at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “We are personally seeing a large jump in the number of cases, and the number of prescriptions we’re calling in ...
Born July 27, 1969—Bryan Fuller, 53. Let’s see…There’s credits as either Executive Producer, Producer or Writer forVoyagerandDS9,American Gods,Mockingbird Lane, the last being a reboot ofThe Munsterswhich lasted one episode and was, err, strange,Pushing Daisies, aCarriereboot,HeroesandDea...
According to Isserman (a professor of history at Hamilton College), in 1938 the Communist Party of America counted 38,000 members in New York State alone, most of them living in New York City. A Communist candidate for president of the board of aldermen received nearly 100,000 votes that ...
OpenAI is adding a new director to its board: Zico Kolter, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a researcher who has studied artificial intelligence safety. The San Francisco-based startup announced Kolter’s appointment in a blog post Thursday, making him the first compu...
I wrote about the career of Rembert Weakland in a piecepublished today atFirst Things. We had to cut some of Weakland’s words in the interest of space, but I wanted to offer to readers some fuller comments of his. He claims that the Church is really at fault for his use of dioces...
slave-owners to extend the territory of slavery; under the combined influences of pecuniary interest, domineering temper, and the fanaticism of a class for its class privileges, influences so fully and powerfully depicted in the admirable work of my friend Professor Cairnes, "The Slave Power."...
This is Woodville K Marshall who is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the West Indies: He stated clearly and unequivocally: “”It was not so much the SPG that the Church should be apologising for, as the activities of the individual parsons who kept plantations and slaves ...