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Variations in these genes on chromosome 5 are extremely common - present in more than half of healthy people. But they are even more common in individuals with autism, affecting 65%. It takes enormous genomewide association studies like this one - what researchers call very "high powered" studies - to discern this kind of statistical difference. (See six tips on traveling with an autistic child...
...listening and note-taking. Jasanoff enjoys using narratives and stories in her lectures, explaining, “I try to tell stories because I think it’s important to capture something about human experience in the past.” William C. Quinn ’10 calls Jasanoff one of the best lecturers he’s ever had at Harvard, citing her engaging use of narratives, anecdotes, and multimedia in History 1224: “Britain Since 1760: Island, Europe, Empire.” “She uses PowerPoint, but she actually knows...
...determined to never become a PETA acolyte, I also couldn’t shake entirely what I had seen in Vietnam. I read Matthew Scully’s beautiful book Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy and began to wonder if our meat-production system merely sanitized and institutionalized the cruelty I had seen in Vietnam. Increasingly unsettled, I made a fateful decision to visit a slaughterhouse...
...That a woman who sleeps with a younger man needs to be called anything other than a woman is disturbing, not empowering. When older, unattractive men liaise with women half their age, we call them “sugar daddies” and “bachelors”; when older, attractive women do the same, we ridicule them and animalize their pursuits as if they were beyond the pale of civilized activity. By embracing this culturally imposed label, women like Stacey Anderson are not revolutionizing our modern understanding of female sexuality: They are merely aiding and abetting their...
...complaining or afraid. "I am from Minneapolis-St. Paul, do you have any idea of the weather today? We arrived yesterday and this is great! Margaritas are fun and cheap. Nobody told us of any advisory. It must not be bad because my Mom has not tried to call me." Andy, 18, is also from St Paul and is very happy with Mexico, "Everybody thought we were crazy to come here with all the shootings and drug lords all over the place, but the flu? Don't joke...