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Scientists call all these little acts "contact-readiness" cues, because they indicate, nonverbally, that you're prepared for physical engagement. (More general body language is known as "nonverbal leakage." Deep in their souls, all scientists are poets.) These cues are a crucial part of what's known in human-ethology circles as the "heterosexual relationship initiation process" and elsewhere, often on the selfsame college campuses, as "coming on to someone." In primal terms, they're physical signals that you don't intend to dominate, nor do you intend to flee--both useful messages potential mates need to send before they...
...specifically, the management of it. Stress puts into motion a biological cascade involving hormones, glands and neural circuits, all activating one another in a complex feedback loop. When you are stuck in traffic or overwhelmed at work or worn down by the kids, the hypothalamus--a structure buried deep in the midbrain--tells your adrenal gland to pump out a supply of the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol, in turn, tells your body to stop worrying about its basic metabolic needs and instead to "do the things you need to do to save yourself from whatever created the stress," says University...
With apologies to Al Gore, the end of the world is hot. What's behind our appetite for the apocalypse? Is it a way of confronting deep-seated, species-wide fear? Or is it something more?might there be something about the end of the world that we just can't wait...
...Mobb Deep “Drink Away the Pain?...
McCain’s political career has been marked by a deep sense of idealism and integrity, shaped by a lifetime of diverse experiences. A veteran of the Vietnam War, McCain was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years, enduring endless torture and interrogation, and at times, being denied any medical treatment. This memory informs McCain’s stance on torture—he is unequivocally against it. This sets him apart from much of the Republican Party (and many of his opponents), whose view of what constitutes torture is much more narrow. McCain?...