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...test the effect of social influence on eating habits, researchers conducted two experiments. In the first, 95 undergraduate women were individually invited to a lab ostensibly to participate in a study about movie viewership. Before the film began, each woman was asked to help herself to a snack of either M&M's or granola. Another "participant," who was actually an actor hired by the research team, grabbed her food first, in full view of the subjects at the snack line. In her natural state, the phony participant weighed 105 lb. and wore a size 0. But in about half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Lose Weight? Avoid Skinny Overeaters | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...robotic hand comes after years of work by researchers in the lab of Robert D. Howe, a professor of engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Robotic Hand Grabs for More Flexibility | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...They asked, ‘How can you make the most simple hand possible that will work?’” said Leif P. Jentoft, a graduate student in Howe’s biorobotics lab...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Robotic Hand Grabs for More Flexibility | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...known for awhile that varsity athletes, international students, lab assistants, and thesis writers constituted the "elect" who were to receive highly coveted J-Term campus housing this coming January, when most Harvard students wishing to come back to Cambridge will just have to stay at home and see how long they can stand trying to remember high school inside jokes...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: Less Room for Thesis Writers? | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

...large pets, dogs and cats, but for fish, turtles, hamsters, no reason to,” said this student’s girlfriend, who share what they consider joint custody of their two hamsters, Hammie and Marshmallow, and a rat they rescued from certain death at a Harvard lab...

Author: By Anna M. Yeung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meet My Little Pet | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

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