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...support the death penalty and military spending. People with a mellower startle response were more likely to support abortion rights and gun control. The study also looked at several broader political tendencies, including compromise (the willingness to yield to a middle-ground solution) and obedience (the tendency to follow a set path), and found that people who were more sensitive to threat were less amenable to the former and more inclined toward the latter...
...even with my irrational love of porridge, I’m capable of recognizing that no sane person truly loves oatmeal. Hours spent poring over cookbooks in order to prepare dinner wasn’t what I had in mind when I pictured a talented chef. Anyone can follow a recipe and make it look like the photo; I wanted to be able to stroll through a market and instantly design a menu based on the freshest produce. No big production. No fancy plating. No drama. Just cooking.Something needed to be done. I needed ample instruction, lots of practice...
With a talented and wealthy crop of students leaving the public school system every year for greener pastures, it’s become far too easy to simply label that system “broken” and follow suit. Renewed community-wide participation in state education would be accompanied by a sense of urgency to fix that system’s myriad problems. Of course there is a place in the world for private schools; it’s simply important, in the name of equal opportunity, to ensure that the discrepancy between them and their public counterparts should...
...You’re never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze,” you wouldn’t need to know that it’s from a song called “Teenage Riot,” by a band called Sonic Youth.It seems to follow that we—that is me, you, and everyone we know—are keyed into this cultural endemism in large part because people—a lot of people—bothered to make art about it.For three months this summer I lived and worked at a television...
...Trying to mimic a portfolio we can’t actually follow is a bad idea,” wrote portfolio manager Roger Nusbaum on TheStreet.com, “but learning from people who are smarter than us is a good idea...