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...cyberspace and on newsstands, writers are out to prove that parenting, or at least parents, can be cool. The online magazine Babble.com spun off from literary sex journal Nerve com publishes articles by and for parents who can't quite believe they ended up doing something as square as raising a kid. (In his Babble blog Baby Daddy, Steve Almond endearingly refers to his 3-month-old as "the little f___er.") In a typical hipster-parent offering, an edgy novelist, musician or feminist sex writer has a baby--Me! Who'd'a thunk it!--and wrestles to reconcile...
...huckster, but Gitomer has earned his bragging rights. The Charlotte, N.C., writer has had four consecutive books on the Wall Street Journal business best-seller list, beginning with Little Red Book of Selling, which has appeared on the list for an impressive 102 weeks and has moved more than 400,000 copies. The latest, Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude, a pastiche of self-help homilies, just hit No. 1, and Gitomer, 60, has another on the way: Little Green Book of Getting Your Way, a tiny tome on persuasion, due out in April. "I have enough for another half...
...other claims of the pro-marriage lobby. For instance, it's true that currently married people report a better sex life than single people, but men who are divorced and living with a new girlfriend report even better sex. Also, according to a 2004 paper from the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, those marrying for the first time tend to report better health--but surprisingly, the period around divorce is also associated with improved health for those breaking up. In short, we feel better when we can pair off and then dissolve those pairings when they go awry...
...Decker recently founded the Harvard Interactive Media Group with the assistance of Alice J. Robison, a visiting scholar at MIT. Decker said that the organization seeks to be a recreational and academic presence on campus for students interested in interactive media. The group is currently working to produce a journal featuring articles by student contributors, professors from Harvard and other schools, and figures from the gaming industry. They also plan to hold a monthly colloquium of speakers and panels on topics pertaining to interactive media and to create a development group through which students can produce video games...
...vegetative state, all the way down to a dead person when there’s no one there at all,” said Professor of Psychology and the senior author of the study Daniel M. Wegner. But the findings, published in the Feb. 2 issue of the academic journal Science, modify the view that minds are judged on a continuum from greater to lesser, revealing instead that they are evaluated based on assumptions about the individual’s ability for doing, in combination with his or her capacity to feel sensations like hunger and pride. The authors...