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...women who aren’t convinced that their stilettos mean they’ve done something wrong. Despite our society’s emphatic assertion that an objective standard of beauty exists, the concept is actually grounded in female inadequacy. Regardless of how many hours, dollars, and brain cells women spend, there will always be an un-pluckable hair, an un-erasable wrinkle, and an un-toneable ounce of cellulite to eliminate. The pursuit of beauty is eminently frustrating (and eminently profitable) for the very reason that it can never be successfully realized. Feminism, on the other hand, aims...
...from little more than dull layers of bread, cheese and eggs, in Lukins' hands the dish became a bold delicacy with prosciutto, arugula and pesto. The fact that her recipes contained ingredients most Americans had never heard of in the 1980s hardly mattered. Lukins, who died Aug. 30 of brain cancer at age 66, knew how to make things taste good...
...zebrafish—was awarded tenure in July in the department of molecular and cellular biology. A member of faculty since 2002, Engert has dedicated his time at Harvard to a unique way of studying neural activity that allows the researcher to observe all neurons in a functioning brain. “We look at how the brain processes sensory information—in our case, visual information—and what the brain does with that information in producing behavior,” Engert said. “The zebrafish are small enough that they fit into a high...
Barth’s research involved inserting miniscule electrodes into the finches’ HVC, a brain center critical to controlling song production and coordinating motion...
...original version of the Sept. 11 news article "Mapping a Bird Brain in Japan" incorrectly stated that 50 college students participated in the RIKEN Brain Science Institute's internship program last summer. In fact, there were six college student interns...