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Everyone and their Hist and Lit tutor has a theory of when childhood ends—or really, when theirs ended. Puberty? Columbine? 9/11? But whatever the endpoint, hardly anyone disputes the premise: There is childhood, and then it’s over. The ending is generally seen as a...
Harvard's Stickgold believes dreams have a different function entirely. "I think it's pretty clear now that sleep and dreaming serve to process memories from the last day and all the way back," he says. "Sleep can strengthen memories... and help extract the meaning of events by building associative...
All the competing theories on why we dream may be wrong. One or more of them could be right. "I have no doubt that dreams can be enjoyable, informative, even revelatory to the dreamer," says Harvard's Stickgold. "But dream analysis is a more tricky question. The more dogmatic and...
In Kennedy's case, the vote on greenhouse gases probably turned less on an ideological move than on his support for states' rights, since a basic issue was whether Massachusetts and other state plaintiffs had standing to sue for federal regulation. But the study says Kennedy started out conservative and...
A wise man once said: “man doth not live by bread only.” (Deuteronomy 8: 2-3). Another wise man once said “man shall not live on bread alone” (Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4) And for that reason...