Word: behaviorism
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...week, go out and get drunk on the weekend," says Claudine Biggs, an 18-year-old London schoolgirl. Biggs has written a play that premiered at a north London theater in February. Her teenage protagonists are dysfunctional and knowing, their cruelty as casual as their sexual relationships, their racy behavior only partially camouflaging palpable misery. There are no adults in the play to intervene or to comfort. For too many British kids, that's not drama; that's real life...
...this is all rather charming. How sentimental it is to think of all of us putting aside our papers and problem-sets in favor of arts and crafts. But beyond the globs of glitter glue, the behavior is bizarre: housing is completely arbitrary and most definitely unequal across the board. The obligatory River Run many freshman blocking groups take part in on the eve of the lottery announcements in order to ward off chances of being “Quadded” (put in one of the three Houses a ways up Garden Street) is testament to this. (The next...
...submit was born out of a concern for preserving diversity, undergraduates’ impulse to foster House pride is the product of our diversity-conscious culture. Diversity is ultimately a positive societal goal—there seems to be little doubt about that. Yet it also makes for strange behavior. When people are lumped together with those with whom they may not have much in common, there’s an impulse to find some connection to celebrate. When this happened to 1,600 Harvard freshmen yesterday morning, the celebration was of pride for Houses they may feel nothing...
...results, published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, are among the first to link poor sleep to such a wide array of physiological changes. While he cannot fully explain why men and women are affected differently, Suarez believes that testosterone could play a role. In his study, men reporting the most difficulty sleeping also had the highest levels of testosterone, which is known to reduce levels of heart-damaging inflammatory proteins. So, he speculates, while testosterone may trigger sleep problems, it may also blunt some of the physiological changes that can raise the risk of heart disease and diabetes...
...them didn't love it, he couldn't have afforded the lavish new house he built in suburban Atlanta. You could also ask if Perry is mocking the folks he hopes to uplift. But his form of comic melodrama depends on creating emotional extremes, acute cartoons of recognizable behavior, people who hurt and get hurt. Public humiliation is the penance his stage characters must endure before they are absolved in a final embrace and bring the curtain down with a full-throated gospel song...