April 2013

Frank Boland
April 22, 2013

A two-hour college lecture can seem extraordinarily long when you’re in your early 50s, even with a ten-minute break!  But there I was sitting in Massachusetts Hall in Harvard Yard –surrounded by over a hundred “kids”- listening to Professor David Dressler talk about the life cycle of scientific breakthroughs.  And I had brought this tedium on...

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

– Andrew Carnegie