In his most recent piece for the Washington Post, Robinson Professor of Public and International Affairs Steven Pearlstein discusses Bernie Sanders’s plans. Read the whole article here.
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Robinson Professors, Paul D’Andrea and Steven Pearlstein, joined Robert Hazen in his opening night for NOVA documentary “Life’s Rocky Start.”
Below is the program description and watch it here:
“Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place—a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, life emerged. But how? NOVA joins mineralogist Robert Hazen as he journeys around the globe. From an ancient Moroccan market to the Australian Outback, he advances a startling and counterintuitive idea—that the rocks beneath our feet were not only essential to jump-starting life, but that microbial life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we know and depend on today. It’s a theory of the co-evolution of Earth and life that is reshaping the grand-narrative of our planet’s story.”
“Thelma Z. Lavine, Clarence J. Robinson Professor Emerita of Philosophy and American Culture, died Jan. 26 at her home in Washington, D.C.
Lavine taught at Mason from 1985 to 1998, and before that at George Washington University.
She was the author of “From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest,” which grew out of a series of lectures on that subject presented on Maryland Public Television.
Lavine was a highly respected, widely published scholar in the field of philosophy and was president of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 1992–94.
Her extremely popular classes were renowned for combining the disciplines of philosophy, economics, history, sociology and American culture.
Announcement of a memorial service is forthcoming.”
Taken from the Mason Gazette.