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...field of cognitive science of religion has become one of the most popular interdisciplinary topics in recent years. There is now a cohort of researchers from the fields including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, natural sciences, and religion doing top-level research at institutions like Oxford and Cambridge, who engage in scientific study of the cultural, psychological, biological, and philosophical aspects of religion. There is deep engagement with both scientific method and religious traditions, and despite the fact that many of the scholars in the cognitive science of religion field differ widely in their worldviews, dialogue has been extremely fruitful. Drs. Scott...
Concerned by students’ overindulgence and their parents’ attorneys, a small cohort of administrators has, for the past semester, mulled changes to Harvard’s alcohol and drug policy. The Committee on Social Clubs has met secretly, charged with figuring out how to keep kids from nearly killing themselves, and how to punish them when they...
...associated with an increase in the risk of heart attacks among middle-aged women, Rosner said she does not recommend that people increase their coffee consumption with the “goal of reducing their risk” for heart problems. These results are consistent with other cohort studies done in all-male populations, but Rosner said it is possible that the results may vary if the type of coffee consumed or the method by which it is prepared differs between racial or ethnic populations. Swedes were the subjects of choice in the study because they are known...
...student performance in math and science in many industrialized countries, students perform better when they must take comprehensive graduation examinations that are administered by an external examining board. In the United States, we have Advanced Placement (AP) exams, but only 10 percent of all those in an age cohort pass that exam...
...home each week, according to the AXA survey. That's up from seven hours two years ago and is an hour more than adult nonretirees who, granted, are not at home as much. But this is a far bigger chunk of time than is spent online by the same cohort in countries like Japan (three hours a week) and Spain (two hours). "Search is the sleeper," says Tobey Dichter, CEO of Generations on Line, a nonprofit promoting Internet literacy among older Americans. "The idea of being able to discover your own world is very exciting...