Word: hamer
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...create a viable business in which locally built furniture - all made from recycled wood - would be sold nationwide, providing jobs for local residents who will make each piece by hand and pocket the profits. He's also teaming up this summer with Brad Guy, a researcher at the Hamer Center for Community Design at Pennsylvania State University and co-author of the new book Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses, to launch a home rebuilding program in East Biloxi and Pearlington, Mississippi, that will use recycled yellow pine, heart pine and cypress to create stylish, middle-income houses...
...British scientist Lewis Wolpert's enquiry into the evolutionary origins of belief. If the theme sounds familiar, that's because the search for scientific roots of religious faith is a hot, and heatedly debated, issue of the day. In his 2004 book The God Gene, U.S. molecular biologist Dean Hamer claimed to have located one of the genes he said was responsible for spirituality. Last month, the American philosopher and evolutionary theorist Daniel Dennett provoked more controversy with Breaking the Spell, in which he cast religion in terms of memes - cultural ideas that can spread, mutate and survive...
...long puzzled even the sharpest minds why some people succumb to depression while others march on no matter what life hurls at them. An example of the latter, Peter Hamer is a retired school principal who, over the years, has endured a divorce, the deaths of both parents and a job that often frayed his nerves; he's now supporting his wife through a battle with breast cancer. To many, those hardships would sound like the normal rough and tumble of life. But they'd be enough to tip others into a state that would pass these days for clinical...
...Hamer, in other words, knows how to hold it together. And certain methods of coping may be shown one day to be important in staving off depression. But what is theory and what's fact? On March 1, reporting on a 28-year study in which Hamer is a participant, a team of Sydney researchers announced that depression is most likely to strike a person who is genetically vulnerable to the condition and who experiences three or more unhappy or stressful events within one to five years. In most cases of depression, says team member Gordon Parker, the trigger...
...Study participant Hamer raves about the professionalism of the researchers, but he wonders whether they're missing something. A single genotype and life events couldn't be the only factors in the depression equation, could they? What about parenting styles and coping reserves built up in childhood? Schofield agrees: "We've got it down to two dimensions because of where this study's gone." But research, he says, will reveal "more environmental dimensions, more genes at play, and potentially there'll be interplay between genes." The riddle of depression is looking trickier than ever...