Sydney Levine
Sydney Levine
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SCIENCE COLUMN | Levine: What does it take to feel someone else’s pain?
Last month, Jewish writer and Nobel Laureate Eli Wiesel was quoted in The New York Times as wishing a particular punishment on Bernie Madoff, the mastermind behind the Ponzi scheme that essentially destroyed Wiesel’s charity.
SCIENCE COLUMN | Levine: ‘It’s gross’: Dissecting the disgust reaction
Recently, I’ve been taking note of the instances in which people use “It’s just gross!” as an argument or explanation.
Levine: Goodbye, or not, to autism patients
Last semester, I interned at Chapel Haven, a residence for individuals with autism transitioning from living with their parents to living on their own. The internship was part of a class — “Autism and Related Disorders” — so, at the end of the term, I left to make room for the new interns who would join them the following semester.
Up the Hill - Good Vibrations
Up the Hill - Good Vibrations
Levine: Love is more than just science
As a scientist, I am, at times, guilty of aggressive empiricism — the notion that truths can only be learned (inasmuch as there are truths to be learned) through observation of the world. Anyone who claims to be finding truth any other way is wrong, wrong, wrong.