Word: learnedness
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Don't people get it? E-mail is dangerous, especially if you dash it off without thinking about where it's going. A few politicos, including former FEMA director Michael Brown, learned their lesson last week when careless office repartee became national must-reads.
It's impossible to say whether innate differences in the brain were driving the ambitious behavior or whether learned behavior was causing the limbic to light up. But a number of researchers believe it's possible for the nonambitious to jump-start their drive, provided the right jolt comes along...
Demerath got very different results when he conducted research in a very different place--Papua, New Guinea. In the mid-1990s, he spent a year in a small village there, observing how the children learned. Usually, he found, they saw school as a noncompetitive place where it was important to...
The Harvard women’s hockey team lived, and then almost died, by the quick, surprise scores Friday night. After opening the scoring with two quick goals late in the first period, the Crimson (2-0-0, 1-0-0 ECAC) had to hold on for a tight win...
The 55-7 final score wasn’t the only statistic that the Harvard football team held by overwhelming margin at the end of its game at Columbia on Saturday. The Crimson led or held its own in a few crucial categories—rushing (227 yards to the...