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...Fruit Fly Fight Club in Edward Kravitz's lab at Harvard University. Kravitz, a neurobiologist, has been pitting fruit flies against one another for decades and has painstakingly videotaped thousands of hours of fruit-fly fistfights (yes, they get up on their hind legs and brawl) in an effort to better understand aggression - not only in the insects but possibly in humans as well. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...avoid pain more than we seek comfort; we tend to stick with the status quo; and we like to conform with our peers. Michael got interested in this idea when he was reporting his January cover story on energy efficiency. He later discovered that during Obama's election effort, there was a secret consortium of the nation's leading behaviorists who were advising the campaign. Now the Administration boasts a number of senior members--including Budget Director Peter Orszag and regulatory-czar nominee Cass Sunstein--who are using these ideas to help change the economy and our behavior...
...they come, hitting a respectable .212 while notching 189 kills to go along with his 79 digs and 28 blocks on the season. In addition, Jones earned Hay Division Player of the Week honors eight games into the season after posting a match-high 15 kills in a losing effort to Princeton. “Matt is exactly what you look for in a player,” Weissbourd says. “He can play anywhere on the court. He’s a great all-around player and athlete—he’ll pass the ball...
...Beattie proposes that this shift, if it indeed exists, may be an effort to intellectualize VES in order to legitimize its existence within an Ivy League university. “The trouble with art at an elite institution is there is such an importance place on codifying quality and excellence here,” he says. “When people are making creative speculative work, it’s frightening, because they don’t know how to measure that or teach that, because it is so subjective...
...worked out particularly well, since Venky—who is currently the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of engineering and applied sciences and a professor of physics—stepped down last year as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. There, he spearheaded the effort to transform the institution from a division into a school, and he was interested in the Belfer Center position...