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...official word came from Assistant Professor of psychology Todd F. Heatherton, who teaches Psychology 1. The term anal retentive, he explains, was first used by the inventor of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, to describe people who are fixated at the anal stage of psychosexual development...
Well, maybe the first annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony held at MIT was not so typical. The Ig Nobel prizes honoring individuals for irreproducible results in humanities and the sciences were made possible by the generosity of the late Ignatius ("Ig") Nobel, "the mythical inventor of soda pop and co-inventor of Excelsior," and possible relative of Alfred...
...baby tapes are the creation of Seattle developmental psychologist Brent Logan, founder of Prelearning, Inc., a prenatal-education research institute. "This is not a yuppie toy," says its inventor. "We have barely literate families who are using the tapes." To date, 1,200 children -- the oldest of whom is now four -- have "listened" to the recordings. Last year 50 of the youngsters, ranging in age from six months to 34 months, were given standardized language, social and motor-skills tests. Their overall score was 25% above the national norm...
Defenders of the project predict there will be solid scientific findings and benefits, but even if there are not, so what? Inventor Paul MacCready, who has won both public praise and scientific acclaim for designing the human-powered flying machines known as the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, contends that the true measure of a project's value is not whether it produces hard data but whether it provokes the human mind. "Who can say Lindbergh's flight was scientifically important?" he asks. "There was no new land discovered, and if you asked at the time, people might have said...
...life. A scientific cross pollinator, Mullis, 46, may be the last of the great tinkerers. His passions include cosmology, mathematics, artificial intelligence, virology, chemistry, hallucinogenics, photography and women who are 10,000 days old. At that age, about 28, "they're like a ripe avocado," says the thrice-married inventor...