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...stop perceived inequalities within its social group - and it's a defining characteristic of social, or cooperative, species. "They wanted the same reward for the same work," says Paul Morris, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Portsmouth who specializes in animal behavior. Morris is quick to explain that the study's results aren't anthropomorphic: "I'm not saying that dog jealousy is precisely like human jealousy." Instead, he says, the dogs likely experienced a primitive form of envy...
...Aside from a group of identical stainless-steel sculptures of Mao, created by Qu Guangci in 2003, the exhibition displays no contemporary works, nor does it attempt to explain the link between the paintings and posters on view and the current Chinese art scene that draws so much from them. The label accompanying Chen Yifei's 1972 painting of a single sentry in a monumental landscape, Eulogy of the Yellow River, fails to note that Chen became one of China's most commercially successful artists before his 2005 death...
Skeptics raise other concerns, ones that go beyond the copycat effect. Couldn't happy people simply be exposed to similar lifestyles or social factors that explain their shared joy, such as favorable weather, low unemployment rates or a winning baseball team? If that were the case, argue the authors, then happiness would spread more uniformly among all the relationships; instead, it varied depending on whether the friendship was mutual or merely one-sided. As the investigators teased out these factors, they found that environment didn't have nearly the power that relationships...
...misleading. I got nothing but algae. So much algae. The horror. The horror. Freshman year, after I became well known for swatting jump shots from sub-five-foot Indian girls in B-league IM basketball, my Facebook profile was still surprisingly un-poked. I couldn’t explain it: I had worked it at all of the study breaks, and was staying in Annenberg late into every night. I was getting nowhere with the girls of the class of 2009 and wasn’t doing much better with Domna. It turned out that Room 13 wasn?...
...going to, first and foremost, try to explain how we arrive at this gap of $100 to $130 million dollars,” Smith said...