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Most Famous Instructor You've Been Taught By
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| Yan |
Paul M. Bingham
| quote: | He made important contributions as a molecular biologist early in his career, including the discovery, as part of a collaborative team, of the parasitic DNA sequence element, the P element transposon. This discovery was a crucial step in allowing biologists to probe how genes build animals by enabling a widely used strategy still used today for retrieving genes from animals. It also shed fundamental new light on how evolution shapes the (self-interested) individual genes that collaborate to build organisms.
More recently, Bingham developed a new theory of human evolution, which builds on W.D. Hamilton’s theory of kin selection (Benefit x Relatedness > Cost) and posits that the Homo genus evolved when an ancestral organism developed the ability to effectively manage non-kin conflicts of interests by lowering the cost of coercion between non-kin individuals (Benefit > Cost of Coercion + Cost of Cooperation).
The theory, using precedents established in biological theory, explains many aspects of human social and sexual behavior. It accounts for the evolution of the human species from the advent of its philogenetic branching from other hominids through physiological and behavioral adaptations until we arrive at our current civilization. As such, this theory serves as a possible new pathway to the unification of the natural and social sciences as well as to bringing new insight into contemporary human behavior – from sexuality and childrearing to political, economic and religious behaviors, among others. This theory is significant because it integrates a number of anthropological, archeological, biolgical and psychological changes in the history of human origin into a synthesized explanation of human evolutionary change as behavioral adaptations using contemporary scientific understanding. |
This guy changed the way I think about the sciences, especially evolution. He was a very enlightened lecturer who constantly had interesting bits of information to tell the students. Even if you were familiar with some of the information, the way it was presented made it seem as if you were just learning about it for the first time again.
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| wizniz |
| my teacher's better than your teacher |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Although they've all got books published, I wouldn't say any of my tutors are famous. I think one has a brother who writes for The Times.
HOWEVER, the chancellor of my university is Patrick Stewart. He does workshops with drama students occasionally and he'll present me with my degree when I graduate. |
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| Frenchie |
| All my teachers I had, minus my English teachers are On-air radio personalities or producers. So not Famous, but known. |
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| Yan |
| quote: | Originally posted by NeoPhono
Paul Lauterbur |
Not sure if you're at Stony Brook but if not, we've got a replica of that first MRI machine in our new Chem building. |
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| NeoPhono |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yan
Not sure if you're at Stony Brook but if not, we've got a replica of that first MRI machine in our new Chem building. |
This was back in I think either 99 or 2000 at U of I back in my Computer Engineering days. He didn't teach full-time, but would come in on specific topics and give lectures covering his expertise (NMR, NMR, NMR :D ). That would be cool to see, especially since my current plans are to go into Radiology. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
HOWEVER, the chancellor of my university is Patrick Stewart. He does workshops with drama students occasionally and he'll present me with my degree when I graduate. |
LOL.
You win this thread. |
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| iammesol |
| Jeannie Grussendorf. She pwns. |
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| Intuition |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
HOWEVER, the chancellor of my university is Patrick Stewart. He does workshops with drama students occasionally and he'll present me with my degree when I graduate. |
Hopefully, he won't ask for a performance on-stage. You wouldn't want him to respond like this:
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| jonze |
rjt taught me how to do the drunken jesus pose. i think he picked it up from tiesto.
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| jpisani |
| My high school english teacher used to get railed by Bob Seger |
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