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...study in the February issue of “Psychological Science,” conducted in part by a Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2007 graduate, revealed that lonely people can find comfort in forming connections with inanimate objects. FM decided to ask this researcher what object we should look to for companionship to help us better survive an isolating, depressing days (a.k.a. any day in Cambridge...
...head-scratcher - what happens if an irresistible force meets an immovable object? - now gets its test in the Democratic presidential primary...
...Turns out Einstein's physics provide the answer to that old paradox. A truly irresistible force colliding with a genuinely immovable object will produce an enormous black hole - which is, come to think of it, precisely what some nervous Democrats are starting to worry about...
...quick release three-pointer by sophomore Dan McGeary with 8:47 to play. But, the Bulldogs continued to outhustle the Crimson, seemingly scoring on every possession to keep the game out of reach.“When you’re down by as much as we were, the object of the game is to try to have more and more possessions,” Amaker said. “We were hopeful that they would quick-shoot—and they did—but they made the shots.”An impressive second-half effort by Yale...
...people such big spenders? One idea is that feeling blue causes people to have a devalued sense of self, so spending more money on a new object - which people may identify, in a way, as an extension of themselves - starts to undo that deflation. "People want to value themselves, and this is one way to do it," says Cynthia Cryder, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the study's authors. That same emotional hunger may help to explain other costly behaviors, according to the authors, like aggressively playing the stock market or prowling...