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...It’s interesting to see how megacities are dealing with new challenges for combating climate change,” she said. “It provides a good model to understand how, in the future, other cities could possibly solve these problems...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mexican Bus System Honored | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...even if these effects remain in the mind without translating onto paper or canvas. Researchers prospose that the magnitude of a substance’s psychological effects differs according to one’s genetic makeup. In her research review, “Creativity and Psychopathology: A Shared-Vulnerability Model,” Carson argues that creative individuals tend to respond more positively to the high that drugs induce, since their naturally less inhibited state is more conducive to artistic production. “Genetic vulnerability factors... may predispose certain individuals to experience altered mental states that provide access to?...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow and Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: High Art | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...named the model you created TRAITS. What does that acronym stand for? Hamilton: TRAITS stands for Time, Risk, Altruism, Information, me-Too and Stickiness. Time is whether you're focused on right now or the future. Risk is whether you're willing to take a risk. Altruism is whether you think about others. Information is whether you research before you make a decision. Me-Too is whether you look to others for guidance. Stickiness, whether you stick with what you've already done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Make Decisions | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...information when you're making choices, that tips you toward approving of same-sex relationships. If you're high on the me-Too factor and you know people who are gay or lesbian, that makes you more willing to support same-sex partners. That works in our statistical model, and I think that works in Dick Cheney's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Make Decisions | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...baseball games with “strike zones” where simulated grids of the batter’s strike zone were placed next to the image of the batter on the screen in order to diagnose whether or not called strikes and balls were accurate to the computer model. Considering these models’ validity or lack thereof, there now seems to be a way to have computers call the one thing that has always been governed by humans...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Strikes Mounting on Umpires | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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