Word: behaviorism
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Alas, you won't find Charlie Levine's legend repeated to generations of schoolchildren. That's because this rival of aviator Charles Lindbergh set his crew members against one another and allowed egotism and erratic behavior to delay the transatlantic flight that he had financed. Lucky Lindy, on the other hand, was blessed with woo, which allowed him to skillfully develop relationships with his backers, who made sure he took off on time...
...clear whether such behavior extends to career choice, but Sandra Black, an associate professor of economics at ucla, is intrigued by findings that firstborns tend to earn more than later-borns, with income dropping about 1% for every step down the birth-order ladder. Most researchers assume this is due to the educational advantages eldest siblings get, but Black thinks there may be more to it. "I'd be interested in whether it's because the second child is taking the riskier jobs," she says...
...Ultimately, of course, the birth-order debate will never be entirely settled. Family studies and the statistics they yield are cold and precise things, parsing human behavior down to decimal points and margins of error. But families are a good deal sloppier than that, a mishmash of competing needs and moods and clashing emotions, better understood by the people in the thick of them than by anyone standing outside. Yet millenniums of families would swear by the power of birth order to shape the adults we eventually become. Science may yet overturn the whole theory, but for now, the smart...
...could indicate that WBAI’s decision to not air “Howl” was not one of fear but rather one of subtle protest. They’re getting more attention by deciding not to air the poem. The station is known for its risky behavior in the past, including its decision to air George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words” recording (for which they were heavily fined), so maybe they’re trying a different tactic in the debate over free speech.Perhaps, by the 100th anniversary...
...even intellectually stimulating use for swearing, and his analysis of it is as enlightening as it is jaw-droppingly provocative.The book ends with a chapter called “Escaping the Cave,” which seems at first to be an arrogant, all-encompassing account of human behavior and thought. Pinker writes his psychological and anthropological account of what human beings are like, every paragraph beginning with a phrase such as “human beings think this way...” or “human beings are such...” After six pages of this repetition...