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...Laureys defends Houben's communication technique, saying he has tested the accuracy of his messages by asking him to name certain objects without the help of his therapist. "The videos are very unfortunate and a very bad representation of his condition," Laureys tells TIME. "He was ignored for many years and now he's going through that again by people who make judgments based on the videos...
...have this cycle we've developed-work intensively, buy more, repeat," says Carolyn Danckaert, New American Dream's director of home and communities programs. "At a certain point, the accumulation of stuff starts to drive your life." As Juliet Schor, an economist at Boston College who helps run the group, points out in her book The Overworked American, when workers became more productive over the second half of the 20th century, we as a society chose to take the benefit as more stuff. We could have also decided to, say, work a little less...
...neurotransmitter dopamine isn't quite that powerful, but evidence has been mounting for the past 40 years that its activity is key to helping the brain recognize experiences that cause pleasure. The more dopamine a certain event (having sex or eating ice cream, say) triggers, the more strongly that event gets hard-wired in the brain, and the more intensely your brain drives you to revisit it. (See the best inventions...
...mark. Instead, he calls the attraction "homogenital," whereby someone seeks all the characteristics of the opposite sex, save the genitals, which he or she prefers to be like their own. As a sociological phenomenon, Caputo, wonders if the growing power of women in contemporary life and relationships pushes certain men to seek what he calls a "neo-woman," who is hormonally and behaviorally quite feminine and protective, even while possessing the male sex organ. (Read: "How Silvio Berlusconi Uses Women...
...just felt stupid being angry or whiny around him because he was above it,” Harris said. “He had that certain kind of calm that made you feel dumb...