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The late C.P. Snow defined the Two Cultures; Martin Gardner bridges them. His classics, Relativity for the Million and The Ambidextrous Universe, make physics lucid to the layman; The Annotated Alice has become the standard guide to Wonderland. In addition he has published exegeses on poetry as diverse as The...
There is also a laboratory to do blood and urine tests and bacterial cultures. About half of MedStop's business comes from doing pre-employment physicals for companies or dealing with minor on-the-job injuries. Employers like MedStop, says Carlyle, "because time is money. We can get people...
HOW IT IS the 1980's, and Dan Georgakas has come along with an unusual line on our national madness. Georgakas has recently released The Methuselah Factors, a painstaking study that he modestly suggests unlocks "the secrets of the world's longest lived peoples." The first half of Georgakas' study...
As all but the very luckiest-or dullest-of people might testify, individual signals have a way of misfiring just as easily, with results just as calamitous if not as earthshaking. The danger of misunderstanding increases dramatically when even the most elementary signals are used by people in different cultures...
People indulge in nonverbal communication not basically to be clever or devious but because these ways of communicating are deeply embedded in the habits of the species and automatically transmitted by all cultures. So says Anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell, a pioneer in the study of kinesics, as body language is called...