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...Check your home-insurance policy? Fall on your knees and pray for deliverance? All logical enough reactions, but not your very first one. Instead, even when faced with imminent disaster, you'll spend precious time asking, "What was that?" It's called the cognitive imperative, the uniquely human, hardwired instinct to link cause with effect that gave us a vital evolutionary advantage over other animal species. After all, the noise could be just a passing truck and nothing to lose precious sleep over. Delineating how we react to an earthquake is just one example of the cognitive imperative described...
...This statistical discrimination is the same instinct that leads women to clutch their purses at the glimpse of a dark young man down the block. And it?s understandable, to a degree. But I can only imagine the emotional-and yes, economic-toll it takes on this entire swath of young...
...Crossing The Line" [Feb. 27], on female troops in Iraq: We nominally exclude women from combat, but as your article explained, women regularly find themselves in full-blown battles. It is the normal instinct of every decent man to protect women and children. That we are now sending women--including the mothers of babies--into the cauldron of war is another sign that America has lost...
...Friday evening at Springfield College at the Blake Arena in Springfield, Mass. “We can’t close matches this year,” junior Dave Fitz said. “We don’t have a killer instinct.” The Pride (8-10, 6-2) received a dominant performance from freshman outside hitter Ryan Frederickson, who led all players with 17 kills on 24 swings. Last month, Frederickson registered 16 hits and 14 digs when Springfield visited Harvard (3-9, 2-3 Hay) and took the match, 3-1. Despite remembering his stand...
...Marlin's proverb comes to mind because that's pretty much the dividing line in the Dubai Ports controversy this week: between intellect and instinct, between those who say they can explain this deal and those who say there is no explaining...