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...dilemmas that engage us emotionally, and another when we are making cool, rational judgments, so what? The observed brain activity may help to tell us how we act and react, but that is very different from telling us why. The moral drive within us is not so easily explained. Alasdair Livingston, Adelaide
Challenge #5: "I feel like the parent." Angela Bryan-Brown, 15, says she often feels like a parent to her 14-year-old brother Alasdair. "You don't have a choice," says Angie. "You've got to help out, and your parents can only do so much. They're so stressed out." Angie's mom Florie Seery refers to Angie as "the third parent in the house" and "an old soul," a phrase I've heard often from other parents...
...expensive than, say, a kickball, but the fact is, it may work just as well. In January the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., found that obese kids burned six times as many calories playing DDR as they did with a traditional video game. And in July the wonderfully named Alasdair Thin, a researcher of human physiology at Heroit-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, found that college students burned twice as many calories playing an active video game in which they dodged and kicked for 30 minutes as they did walking on a treadmill. Studies have not yet shown...
...step at a time. Seeing how the actors responded. Seeing how our set person responded to the script.” Benjamin explains that the experience of casting the show was appropriately unique. While some actors came from the Common Casting process, some were drawn from other sources. Alasdair R. Wilkins ’10 heard about the show through his participation in an improvisational troupe, the Immediate Gratification Players. Like Guha, Wilkins was drawn to Benjamin’s monologues, which “are just awesome to say.” Reflecting on some of his own dialogue...
...orchestra—seeking A—recall the agitation of a fly rising midsummer to the occasion of a pane of clear glass, but who has also not failed to notice that the bright star of her Monday seminar, the young man from Edinburgh—Alasdair?—is just a knight’s move away, one up two over, distractedly fanning something from his hair, alas putting just enough flounce into the motion to give a woman second-thoughts, administering a cool corrective, sometimes called a douche, to a fantasy that she had only moments...