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...hooping is that it's fun, but its lasting value is that it works. An hour of intense hooping can burn as many calories as an hour-long run on a treadmill. Exercisers can get a full-body workout with moves like HoopGirl's "pulse," which stimulates the entire core; the "limbo," which targets the back and thighs; and the "Wild West," which helps tone biceps and triceps. "Anything that gets people off the couch and burning calories is a good thing," says Pete McCall, an exercise physiologist for the American Council on Exercise. "Hooping can be a good...
Gordon Gekko got it wrong. In his new book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, primatologist Frans de Waal uses a variety of studies on empathy in animals to debunk the idea that humans are competitive to the core. He talked to TIME about contagious yawning, why we share and Bernie Madoff. (See photos of Madoff's downfall...
What about people who seem to lack empathy altogether, like psychopaths? You talk about a "mammalian core." There's a book called Snakes in Suits, which is about psychopaths in business. Madoff would be a good example, probably, and Kenny Lay, the head of Enron. I find that such a striking title because it makes them into reptiles. Empathy is not a reptilian thing. Empathy is a mammalian thing. Psychopaths are capable of taking the perspective of somebody else, but only to take better advantage of you. They're able to play the empathy game, but without the feelings involved...
...College is currently in the design phase of its large-scale House renewal project—the most extensive renovation of the College’s nine river and three Quad Houses, which will total an estimated $1 billion. A second-year GSD course entitled “The Core Studio” provides masters of architecture students with an academic exercise emphasizing the practical considerations of architecture in “politics and real life,” according to Stephen Y.M. Fan ’04-’06. One of the main projects the class considers...
...tasks, and in some instances, enhanced customer service—were positive. “What surprised me was the power of such a small change,” she said. “In order to have predictable nights off, team members had to work together to rethink core assumptions about how they worked.” While the study demonstrated positive benefits from increased time away from employment, the new approach to work was a difficult transition for some employees. “Anytime you change an organization and how people do their work, it?...