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248: 238: 211: 141: 123: 92: 350:. The NY Times article is humorous, and I mention this because it is humorous in the same way that the book he co-wrote with Dr. Leon Lederman (The God Particle) is humorous. So now I am wondering, whose sense of humor came through in the book - Teresi's or Lederman's? Lederman is known for his wit. Apparently Teresi has a sense of humor as well. So I guess it is a collaborative wit. 559: 471: 21: 439:(6 Dec 2002): 1895-6 is absolutely scathing. Near the beginning the reviewer says Teresi's "enthusiasms have led him to craft a misleading, indeed pernicious, account of those cultures and their connections to the modern scientific enterprise." Specifying his particular failings, he notes: "Teresi falls back on two implicit arguments: a 151: 529:
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one (which uses our current standards to judge the past) and a general put-down of Europe.... The author’s Whiggism leads him to see non-Western cultures, not in their own terms, but as 'mirroring,' 'presaging,' 'hinting at,' 'bearing out,' 'paving the way for,' 'evidencing nascent understandings
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of,' and 'being the forerunner of' today’s science. This malady is sometimes diagnosed as 'precursoritis,' and every graduate student knows that ... is not the way—certainly not the best way—to tell the story of what people have thought about nature in other historical contexts."
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Dick Teresi seems to have written plenty of articles - just punch his name into a Google or Yahoo search. Two notable articles are one in the Atlantic which I wrote in this article, and now another in the New York Times Books section. Here is the link for the NY times article
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The problem I am having is finding biographical facts about Dick Teresi. He has written a lot including some books. But I have so far not discovered many biographical facts.
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I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in
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Dick Teresi's latest book (I think) (It has been well recieved from what I can tell).
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Teresi has contributed at leat two pieces to WSJ Opinion: TASTE COMMENTARY The Flag
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http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/24/books/hungarians-think-the-darnedest-things.html
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In line citations have been added to all works mentioned so far in the article
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http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/05/books/high-concept-classics-a-quiz.html
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In sum, Teresi's work should be taken with caution. --
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From NYTimes Books section Sunday, January 24, 1993 -
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