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...what happens if you disable the amygdalae? This is not something you could (ethically) do to a research subject, but scientists have been studying a 42-year-old woman who has such severe damage to her amygdalae - due to a rare genetic condition called Urbach-Wiethe disease, which causes calcification in the temporal lobes - that they have stopped functioning. The patient's identity isn't public, but neuroscientists call her SM, and a new paper in the journal Nature Neuroscience reports the results of experiments judging her conception of personal space...
...avoiding pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, it isn't surprising that some American conservative and Evangelical groups have reacted angrily to the UNESCO document. "U.N. Report Advocates Teaching Masturbation to 5-Year-Olds" read the headline of FoxNews.com's Aug. 26 story. "New UNESCO Sex Education Guidelines Call on Children to Promote Abortions," a LifeNews.com article announced on Sept. 1, the same day conservative news site CNSNews.com warned that "U.S. Funds U.N. Group That Supports Teaching 5-to-8-Year Olds about Masturbation...
...turn of the 20th century, Harvard alumnus and Civil War veteran Major Henry Lee Higginson addressed the Harvard community on what he believed it most needed: a common space that all Harvard students could call their own. Higginson argued that the College exists “to furnish fit material for the building up of the Republic…good public and private citizens.” For this task, he reasoned, “equipment is needed, beside teachers, lectures, and books, the freest and fullest intercourse between students.” More than a century later, the major?...
...daunting as the challenge may appear, it behooves the Harvard community to seize the opportunity before us and thereby make the most of our own educations by breathing life back into the major’s vision of an inclusive, democratic common space that all Harvard students can call their...
...waive the supplemental plan, go to www.tinyurl.com/mcrnhm or call Member Services...