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...final exam in Calculus 1a to before winter break presents logistical difficulties. “We would have to restructure a lot of calculus sections if we wanted to end earlier in the semester,” Benesh said. Certain topics would have to be left out, which would affect what must be taught in higher level calculus classes. Kenneth Maxwell, a visiting professor of history, said he offered the final exam for his course, History 1757, “History of Latin America to 1825, ” before December because it worked better with the class?...
...whether the tobacco industry has changed at all in its pursuit of addicting smokers since signing the Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 with the State Attorneys General.” However, the study’s leaders were careful to note that lower nicotine content in cigarettes may not affect overall nicotine intake. Previous studies have shown that smokers tend to take “larger puffs” or smoke more cigarettes if they smoke cigarettes with less nicotine in them, the study’s authors said. But in a statement on their Web site, Phillip Morris...
...faulty circuit?" After 10 weeks of mindfulness-based therapy, 12 out of 18 patients improved significantly. Before-and-after brain scans showed that activity in the orbital frontal cortex, the core of the OCD circuit, had fallen dramatically and in exactly the way that drugs effective against OCD affect the brain. Schwartz called it "self-directed neuroplasticity," concluding that "the mind can change the brain...
COULD THINKING ABOUT THOUGHTS IN A new way affect not only such pathological brain states as OCD and depression but also normal activity? To find out, neuroscientist Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison turned to Buddhist monks, the Olympic athletes of mental training. Some monks have spent more than 10,000 hours of their lives in meditation. Earlier in Davidson's career, he had found that activity greater in the left prefrontal cortex than in the right correlates with a higher baseline level of contentment. The relative left/right activity came to be seen as a marker...
...when Cech finally did head east to HHMI, he said that the opportunity to affect science education on a broader scale was one of his motives...