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...Manage Risk Over the past 50 years, researchers who study human judgment have realized that we rely on emotions to make decisions about risk. We can't possibly mull over every new piece of data our brains collect, so our emotions give us shortcuts, helping us make split-second judgments about that information. The more uncertainty, the more shortcuts we use. This is a good thing. People who have suffered brain damage that removes emotions from their calculations cannot function. They can't make decisions, even simple ones. So we need our emotions to make sense of the world...
...recommend seeking out information and not relying on emotion alone. Often, the best information can be found by checking with multiple sources - the kind that don't always agree. Come up with a plan for how you might stay home with your children for a week, if need be. Give your brain something to do. Be careful about relying too much on TV news, a highly emotional medium. The brain can stagnate if it marinates in fear for too long...
...Mount and Erin E. Goodman, Assistant Director of the OIP. Mount and Winnie added that the new proximity will improve their offices’ teamwork. “It was hard, we had to walk all the way over there,” Mount said. “Oh, give me a break,” Winnie playfully retorted. —Staff Writer Eric P. Newcomer can be reached at newcomer@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff Writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Yeah, it’s not fair that tutors have pets,” said Galster. “It’s not ideal, but to be honest, they give you enough leeway to have my pet turtle. There’s not enforcement for small things, so there’s a middle ground.” Galster admits that his House tutor is well aware of Franklin’s presence...
...wouldn't overstate the degree that it helps." If that indifference seems to contradict the spirit of U.S.-Cuba engagement that Obama expressed in his presidential campaign and at the Summit of the Americas earlier this year, it may be because he's found that conservatives can still give him headaches over Cuba and the Latin-American left. Republicans are currently holding up key diplomatic appointments in Congress, for example, to protest Obama's support of leftist Honduran Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a military coup over the summer. (That issue may become more complicated with the news Monday...