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...between why the behavior evolved and why the actors actually engage in it. The same is true for altruistic tendencies. You share food with your kin. You share food with individuals who may repay the favor. So the sharing behavior evolved for self-interested reasons. But that doesn't mean that the individual actor, at the moment that he does it, is thinking of the potential benefits...
...believe it or not, FlyBy doesn't mean that in a snobbish way. The fact is, California's state schools may be in a heap of trouble. The state legislature approved a whopping 20 percent cut in funding for the 10 schools in the University of California system—shaving $637.1 million from a $3.23 billion budget, which now stands at $2.6 billion. The legislature has also proposed a 32 percent increase in student tuition by fall 2010. In response, students, faculty, and staff protested the cuts yesterday. Imagine choosing Berkeley or UCLA over Harvard or Yale because...
...language I read, the words I use at home,” said Reyzl R. Geselowitz ’10. As they tried to define their religion for viewers in Korea, the students at Hillel debated their own ideas of Judaism. “Does being Jewish mean keeping kosher? Does being Jewish mean celebrating Shabbat? Does being Jewish mean feeling proud when I see someone Jewish on TV?” one student queried. For many, the answer was social activism. “To me, it’s all about social justice. It’s about...
...main story, in which humans and robots do battle for the future of the collective soul, is familiar from many a Philip K. Dick story, like Minority Report, not to mention The Matrix and, in its proposing of a renegade colony of humans, District 9. Unfortunately "like" doesn't mean "as good as." Surrogates is busy and brainy but dyspeptic - an action movie that aspires to entropy...
...Soaring prices for posh abodes does not mean Hong Kong's economy has escaped the recession. The unemployment rate remains high - for Hong Kong at least - at 5.4%; retail sales dropped 5.5% year-on-year in July, the most recent data available. Though average prices for non-luxury housing has rebounded 25% this year, they are still a third lower than the market's all-time high, in 1997. (See pictures of Hong Kong...