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...quick read reveals that they are counterintuitive; in fact they’re nonsense. Despite their steady dwindling, hate crimes and racial tension persist across the country. While these phenomena certainly don’t indicate any peculiar suppression or active organized racism, to make the claim that even the Democratic electorate actually prefers a black man to his Caucasian equivalent—Ferraro called Obama “lucky”—is to presume an epiphany of toleration among the people for whom ‘the Bradley Effect’ was conceived...
...crazy friend, you aren’t in the clear. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in the United States, the likelihood that a person will develop some mental disorder during his lifetime is 48.6 percent. Although this data may go a long way towards explaining political phenomena in the United States, it is nonetheless not very reassuring that one-half of Americans are at some time certifiably bonkers—especially given our liberal gun laws. The problem isn’t just that we are crazy now; it’s that we are progressively getting crazier...
While groups like Pleiades and Sablière are uniquely Harvard phenomena, all three sororities at Harvard are chapters of large national groups that are also found at state colleges and Southern universities. Despite this affiliation, Harvard’s gates provide a decidedly different environment for its burgeoning Greek scene than the rollicking fraternity row at Ole Miss. Unlike many of their sister chapters, Harvard sororities lack one of the defining elements of sorority life: a house. Out of Harvard’s Hellenic chapters, only the fraternity Sigma Chi has real estate, whereas male final clubs...
Though it's premature to generalize based on animal results that the same phenomena would hold true in people, Swithers says, she notes that other human studies have already shown a similar effect. A University of Texas Health Science Center survey in 2005 found that people who drink diet soft drinks may actually gain weight; in that study, for every can of diet soda people consumed each day, there was a 41% increased risk of being overweight. So even though her findings were in animals, says Swithers, they could lead to a better understanding of how the human body responds...
...word for a robot that plugs into an outlet and shines very bright, white light on you. When it shines on a person with seasonally mediated anxiety, depression, and lack of motivation, science and magic converge to make those feelings go away (phototherapy lamps fit into the category of phenomena that scientists know for sure work but don’t know for sure why—like dark matter, which, despite its name, has little to do with my condition...