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...those reasons, Ludwig adds a few others. Previous studies have found that watching television lulls people, especially young children, into a low-energy state that is akin to sleeping - that's about as sedentary as a person can get. "Some studies suggest that the metabolic rate can fall even below that of sleeping," he says. "They suggest that children are getting into some deep hypnotic state at times." (See the top 10 TV series...
...King said that the social sciences are undergoing a historic transformation in response to the computer revolution. Out of necessity, he said, the field is becoming a “team sport” led by “collaborative interdisciplinary teams” akin to labs in the natural sciences. “There isn’t any other way to cope with the onslaught of data of different types and ever increasing quantities,” he said...
...Since the election, the Revolutionary Guards, which report directly to Khamenei, have all but imposed a military dictatorship over the country. Its volunteer vigilantes, the Basij, along with the secret police, are the ones beating up and arresting demonstrators. But arresting Mousavi, Khomeini's political scion, would be akin to arresting Thomas Jefferson. (See pictures of the legacy of Ayatullah Khomeini...
There are plenty of bloggers who are trying to do something akin to journalism - some do it well, some poorly - but there's a whole vast universe that picture leaves out. That universe is people who are blogging not to reach a large audience, necessarily [or] to supplement their income. They're doing it to express themselves, to find out what it's like to write in public and to tell something of their own lives and experiences...
...Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion agreed that the firefighters had suffered discrimination but took a softer tone, avoiding direct criticism of Sotomayor and her colleagues. "I found the Kennedy opinion really consciously restrained," says Tom Goldstein, co-chair of the Supreme Court practice at Akin Gump. "He pulled back in order to minimize the way this case focuses on her." Chief Justice John Roberts, who Goldstein says "has a real interest in depoliticizing the court," joined with Kennedy. (Watch TIME's video "Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model...