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Pharr said that Radcliffe’s own researchers could inform the University’s emerging initiative. She cited as one example Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji, a psychologist who has studied gender disparities in attitudes toward mathematics. In online tests that ask subjects to categorize various pictures and words, Banaji has found that females associate “math” with unpleasant stimuli much more readily than males...
...been a global tsunami-warning network in place, the death and suffering of tens of thousands could have been avoided. Natural disasters cannot be predicted with absolute certitude, but appropriate technological tools can minimize devastation by providing warning. The international community must develop a global early-warning system to inform people of any looming threat, and the U.N. should set up permanent regional disaster-aid centers so that quick relief can be provided...
...asking them about the colonoscopy after it's over. There's a lot that escapes them." Kahneman therefore believes that social scientists studying happiness should pay careful attention to people's actual experiences rather than just survey their reflections. That, he feels, is especially relevant if research is to inform quality-of-life policies like how much money our society should devote to parks and recreation or how much should be invested in improving workers' commutes. "You cannot ignore how people spend their time," he says, "when thinking about well-being...
...ordered him out in 1986, Cazalas says, he called his Libyan colleagues and talked his way back into his old job. Darrell Livingston, 51, from Winter Haven, Florida, who works on Essider's metering equipment, says he was once detained by federal agents after arriving home and asked to inform for them in Libya. Livingston says he rejected their offer but kept his job, even filing yearly U.S. tax returns listing his overseas residence as Libya. "The irs didn't seem to care," Livingston says. Libya's oil industry will need many more such experts if it is to reach...
...Seismic Monitoring and Statistic Center in Bangkok, "The phone calls started pouring in." The officer, who doesn't want his name made public, and two colleagues struggled to answer the phones and assure callers that the quake was nowhere near Bangkok. He says he didn't have time to inform his boss before the wave hit, but he had no need to. Sumalee Prachuab, who supervises the Bangkok office, was having breakfast at a beach resort in Cha-Am in southeast Thailand when a local monitoring station told her about the quake. By 9 a.m., she knew that the shock...