Word: hunched
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...given his previous findings on the issue, his hunch is that television probably isn't the ideal medium for promoting real interaction between parent and child. If it were, he argues, then the net effect of having the TV on, whether in the foreground or in the background as noise, would have been richer and would have led to more sustained exchanges and conversations...
...Outwit: The Freestyle Rap Competition (Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall) — Supposedly, some of Harvard's "finest rhythm aces" and singsong wordsmiths are going to battle it out for "glory, fame" in an event organized by Tuesday Magazine. We have a hunch that the content won't quite take the "money, cash, hoes" angle we're used...
...look for the bathroom, so I shuffle around in the thick shag carpeting until I find it, behind a crudely painted white door that hangs ajar amidst winter sunlight. It’s a tiny attic bathroom with a sharp eave descending over the toilet so I have to hunch to stand under it and squint at the sharp light reflecting off the snow on the roof, through the diagonal glass panes of the window. It hurts so much that I lean my head against this sharp eave for five minutes, to steady myself. Trying again to look...
...fingers and found that the firing rate in the neurons dropped rapidly. That sudden drop-off in firing is the neurological equivalent of the relief felt after a good scratch, indicating that scratching seemed to calm the nerves and therefore relieve the itch. The findings supported the researchers' initial hunch that the itch sensation was not located along the skin of the monkeys' legs where histamine had been injected and that relief did not occur where the metal claw was scratching. Rather, both sensations were rooted in the spinal cord. (See pictures of an X-ray studio...
...that Obama's transformed America into a post-racial rainbow land, what will protest punk rockers Propaghandi have to rage about? I have a hunch they'll find something. (Middle East Downstairs; Sunday, 7pm; $17 at the door...