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Scent not only tells males which females are primed to conceive, but it also lets both sexes narrow their choices of potential partners. Among the constellation of genes that control the immune system are those known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which influence tissue rejection. Conceive a child with...
Precise as the MHC-detection system is, it can be confounded. One thing that throws us off the scent is the birth-control pill. Women who are on the Pill-which chemically simulates pregnancy-tend to choose wrong in the T-shirt test. When they discontinue the daily hormone dose...
"In one study, an aide who was not involved with the birth of a baby would stand in a hospital room while the mother was in labor," says Sue Carter, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois. "The mothers later reported that they found the person very sympathetic...
But it is not as simple as oil wealth equaling authoritarianism, let alone democracy fluctuating with the price of oil. The baby steps in Bahrain aren't in league with democratic development elsewhere in the world, and the trends there can hardly be considered permanent. More important, how do you...
Dennis Lehane wrote some scripts for The Wire. Had you met him before? We never met during The Wire. We first met in Boston during the premier of Gone Baby Gone. He was working on The Wire this last season, he wrote one of the episodes I was in, so...