Hannah Arendt: Why Now?

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

An Educational Response to Student Protests. Learning from Hannah Arendt

Why BioMath? Why Now?

The rationale for and the opportunities to bring the biologymathematics interface into the high schools are explored through examples from the author’s career. Among topics considered are (1) epidemiological modeling, (2) biology as information science, (3) physical mapping of DNA, (4) DNA and RNA chains and the “RNA detective game,” (5) systems biology, (6) graph-theoretical models of the spre...

Why cure, why now?

Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is highly effective at preventing morbidity and mortality due to infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but does not eradicate the virus. Consequently, cART must be administered life-long. Recent progress has stimulated research towards a cure of HIV infection. Approaches under investigation include hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, l...

Reflective thinking and medical students: some thoughtful distillations regarding John Dewey and Hannah Arendt

Reflective thought (critical thinking) is essential to the medical student who hopes to become an effective physician. John Dewey, one of America's foremost educators in the early twentieth century, revolutionized critical thinking and its role in education. In the mid twentieth century Hannah Arendt provided profound insights into the problem of diminishing human agency and political freedom. ...