Sources: Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives

Great Teachers in Our Lives

WITH THE PUBLICATION below of Professor Irving Louis Horowitz's essay on "Aaron Wildavsky: Facts, Policies, Morals, " the editors of Modern Age are pleased to introduce a new series of essays, "Great Teachers in Our Lives . " The addition of this feature, it is hoped, will be as fully successful as that of the "Reconsiderations" that have been appearing regularly in these pages during the past ...

Transforming lives.

Parallel Lives

California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are dotted with populations of checkerspot butterflies that belong to the same species but lead separate lives. The populations are differentiated by the host plants where females lay their eggs, with one type favoring Collinsis torreyi (blue-eyed Mary) and the other favoring Pedicularis semibarbata (pine lousewort). Other than that, the checkerspots are muc...

Jung's lives.

Forty published life histories of C. G. Jung are grouped into eight categories: autobiography, hagiographies, pathographies, professional biographies, intellectual biographies, illustrated biographies, religious biographies, and joint Jung/Freud biographies. Each work is briefly reviewed in terms of its scope, its main contributions to the biographical literature on Jung, and its principal shor...

Georeferenced lives

To give a georeference means to give a reference as existing in the physical space of Earth. This procedure is widely used for the location of archaeological, historical and other sites when geographic information systems (GIS) are used. Here we are proposing to georeference the lives of famous people (in the paper, Newton and Schiaparelli) for teaching purposes, to increase the appeal of some ...