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...struggling to score of late, and the tally provided the trio with a needed confidence boost. “That line’s been playing so well,” Stone said. “They’ve had good chances, but they haven’t gotten the results that they wanted. They were fired up.” Following Wilson’s tally—her 11th of the season—Harvard clamped down on defense, and junior goalie Christina Kessler extended her recent stretch of stellar play, shutting down the Raiders...
JOSS WHEDON: If there is I'm not aware of it either. So either I've gotten more original, or I've run out of genres...
Recently, the endurance and hard work part of the achievement equation has gotten a lot of attention, and the role of raw talent and intelligence has faded a bit. The main reason for this shift in emphasis is the work of Anders Ericsson, a friendly rival of Simonton's who teaches psychology at Florida State University. Gladwell featured Ericsson's work prominently in Outliers. (See the top 10 non-fiction books...
Still, the approach remains paradoxical. Our profligacy has gotten us into trouble, and so the response is ... more profligacy? There is no shortage of critics who contend that today's massive government spending is simply laying the foundation of another financial crisis, this one centering on a loss of confidence in Treasuries and the dollar...
Darwin proposed that natural selection could gradually transform a species. Scientists have observed thousands of cases of natural selection in action. They've documented that beaks of finches on the Galpagos Islands have gotten thicker when droughts forced the birds to crack tough seeds to survive. They've observed bacteria develop resistance to drugs that were believed to be invincible. Now biologists are applying DNA-sequencing technology to natural selection, which lets them identify the individual genetic changes that boost reproductive success...