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...partition-building expert recently sat down with FM to give us the skinny on letting out one’s inner handyman. Conveniently, our secret source told us that Cambridge is an ideal place for a wannabe carpenter. “There are a huge number of Home Depots near Cambridge,” he says. A city slicker, this individual was blown away by the superstore’s selection. “I was like a child in a candy store...
...naysayers on that one - the Huffington Post has become a wildly popular must-read (her reporting on the Plame case and struggles inside the New York Times newsroom incited its own name-the-source guessing game). In any case, her new book, On Becoming Fearless, is all about her inner scaredy-cat. TIME talked to the red-headed reinventor about phobias and footwear...
Marketers' use of neuroscience technologies has alarmed some consumer groups, mainly in the U.S., which fear that it could lead to the discovery of an inner buy button, which, when pressed, would turn us into roboshoppers. Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, an advertising watchdog group, says if neuromarketing boosts advertising's effectiveness even marginally, that's potentially dangerous. "We already have an epidemic of marketing-related diseases," ranging from obesity to Type 2 diabetes to pathological gambling," he says. An even more intrusive technology may be looming. Cambridge University computer scientist Peter Robinson led a team of people...
...board. “Order the same ice cream? Cheat off the same freshman?”) And let us not forget the most nostalgic bit: homework (a.k.a. busywork) assigned after each class. Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” promises to explain the inner workings of every little electronic gizmo in your house from telephones to CDs. This class is interesting and manageable (remember the days of group projects?), unless you’re bad at quantitative reasoning, in which case, no matter how well you kept up with the problem sets and the course notes...
...Zach Helm's clever, calculating script, Harold Crick (Ferrell) is a solitary, hard-working I.R.S. agent who, as he methodically brushes his teeth one morning, hears an authoritative female voice say that he is brushing his teeth. Indeed, everything he does, she describes. And Harold, whose lack of an inner life is his most distinctive feature and saving grace, suddenly is rudderless. "It's not schizophrenia," he patiently explains to a shrink he visits. "It's just a voice talking in my head." He also seeks advice from Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), an English professor who helps Harold locate...