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In an effort to adhere strictly to the reality of a geisha’s life, he even went so far as to purchase and experiment with the makeup a geisha would have worn, Medwed says.
The high point of the morning came when, in between shoots, Christopher Kimball introduced himself to an ecstatic Ahn. The two made foodie small-talk for a minute before Kimball’s assistant arrived with a bag of treats: three autographed “America’s Test...
To be sure, earlier scientific discoveries had hinted at the importance of this kind of interplay between heredity and environment. The most striking example is Pavlovian conditioning. When Pavlov announced his famous experiment a century ago this year, he had apparently discovered how the brain could be changed to acquire...
Galton's insistence on innate explanations of human abilities had led him to espouse eugenics, a term he coined. Eugenics was enthusiastically adopted by the Nazis to justify their campaign of mass murder against the disabled and the Jews. Tainted by this association, the idea of innate behavior was in...
I did a lot of alumnae work, for the alumnae association. I have attended seminars and Radcliffe’s program in management. I am on the Radcliffe Alumnae Board of Management, am a class officer and have participated in every reunion since graduation. I always thought that I was...