A reflective conversation with Helen Dudeney: Helping gifted in Australia

A conversation with Helen Hobbs.

Helen Hobbs, an HHMI investigator, professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and director of the Dallas Heart Study, is best known for her research focused on identifying genetic factors that predispose people to developing metabolic disorders and heart disease. By studying outliers in the Dallas Heart Study, Hobbs (Figure 1) uncovered a genetic defect responsible for lo...

A Conversation with Helen Sharman

Helen Sharman was driving around London in her car in 1989 when she first heard a radio advertisement asking for applicants for a project to send the first British national to space, specifically to the Soviet Union’s Mir space station. A few years out from receiving her chemistry degree, Sharman was working as a food technologist at Mars, the confectionery company, on a chocolate research proj...

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Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

Pygmalion in Conversation with Pierre Bourdieu:A Sociological Perspective

George Bernard Shaw's masterpiece Pygmalion deals with the social function of language and reveals that Linguistic Competence is one of the markers of social status. It presents the story of the social transformation of a flower girl into a ‘lady’ through linguistic retraining. This work has been analyzed from a variety of perspectives such as Freudian psychology and sociolinguistic perspective...