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Harris tested how the brain responded to assertions in seven categories: mathematical, geographic, semantic, factual, autobiographical, ethical and religious. All seven provided some useful data, but only the ones relating to math and ethics produced results clear enough to give a vivid picture of the way the simple and the complex, the subjective and the objective intertwine. Regardless of their content, statements that the subjects believed lit up the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), a location in the brain best known for processing reward, emotion and taste. Equally "primitive" areas associated with taste, pain perception and disgust determined disbelief. "False...
...unprompted phone call to a Crimson reporter yesterday, Faust said that while there were no factual errors in the Globe’s story, it mischaracterized her approach to Allston as “a dramatic change of direction...
...process and review the overall Allston plan.”The article quoted her as saying, “We’re looking at everything again.” In an unprompted phone call to a Crimson reporter this morning, Faust said that while there were no factual errors in the Globe’s story, it mischaracterized her approach to Allston as “a dramatic change of direction.”“I was really surprised to read this story because the way it’s framed—as a rethinking...
...sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Ethics and Public Policy Center. CLARIFICATION: The Nov. 6, 2007 news article "Santorum Speech Sparks Protest" incorrectly implied that Santorum accused Ali of being an Osama Bin Laden apologist after Ali challenged the accuracy of some of the senator's factual statements on Islam. In fact, the accusation came later, after Ali disagreed with Santorum's opinion that the actions of terrorists could be explained in part by Islam...
...intact. There's a constant tension between the BBC's aim of making what Byford calls "brilliant, outstanding, special, stand-out content that raises the bar of broadcasting" and the Corporation's need to justify its existence by attracting mass audiences, which tend to eschew high culture and serious factual programming. Populism has the upper hand. "If you look at the history of the BBC, it is the history of a very slow retreat from the public-service remit, as if gradually the grass is growing over Lord Reith's grave," says Greenslade...