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Week in Review: Ethics

September 18, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson 1 Comment

Norman Borlaug's Nobel Prize Lecture - The death of Borlaug, one of the founders of the Green Revolution, sparked numerous tributes (NY Times, WSJ, Guardian). Gregg Easterbrook in the WSJ estimates that Borlaug's agricultural work has saved more than 1 billion lives and counting. Leave it to GetReligion, however, to highlight the link between his Lutheran roots and his agricultural work. In his 1970 Nobel Prize lecture, Borlaug cites Genesis 41, Isaiah 8 and Isa. 35, Joel 1, and Amos 4 as justification for both his work … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Ethics

Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy, Life in the Academy, Public Intellectuals Tagged With: ethics, Faculty, ghost writing, humility, maimonides, norman borlaug, professor, teaching, writing

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