Word: interestingness
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A team of Harvard scientists made a significant breakthrough in the study of evolutionary biology, pinpointing the origin of cooperative behavior in yeast. Their work, published in Cell magazine two weeks ago, provides important information on the proliferation of genes that allow organisms to cooperate only with each other. The...
Yeah, I do. It was not only an interesting race. I do think it was transformative. We're not out of the woods on all this stuff. But it means a lot.
The pieces I do about eating - and I still do at least one a year - are, to me, only interesting in that they're connected to American life. I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant. I think when I quit...
Fifty-five years ago, sex went mainstream. Since debuting in December 1953 with a snapshot of Marilyn Monroe gracing its cover, Hugh Hefner's Playboy helped thaw America's once-frigid attitude toward human sexuality. Playboy remains the genre's big kahuna, and its stew of titillating photo spreads, risqu...
An obsession over qualifications can lead students to make decisions for the sake of their image, in place of a genuine personal interest. A friend recently told me that instead of taking classes that she found interesting, she was taking classes that would “make her seem more...