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Fitzsimmons, in his letter to incoming students urging them to consider taking a year off, wrote: “We want to do everything possible to help the students we enroll make the most of their opportunities, avoiding the much-reported “burnout” phenomenon that can keep them from reaching their full potential...
...will forget. Researchers have long known that the memory of epochal events fades with time. Experts have a name for this phenomenon: flashbulb memory. As time passes, the chronology gets jumbled; we fumble on the details; we reimagine the past to make it more coherent, meaningful, bearable. A new study at the University of Illinois at Chicago of a large, countrywide sample of people is discovering that we have already forgotten some things about Sept. 11. Which tower fell first? Was the Pentagon hit after both World Trade Center towers? We forget. We conflate. We confuse...
Critics say stealth marketing is tinkering with our minds. Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, dubs the phenomenon the "brand washing of America." Many ad-industry executives are worried that it could all too easily backfire, making consumers even more wary. "I'm against any form of deception," says Keith Reinhard, chairman of DDB Worldwide. "In the end, it's bad business...
...resistance to leptin's power. The fatter they get, and the more leptin they make, the more impervious the hypothalamus becomes. Eventually the hypothalamus interprets the elevated level of leptin as normal--and forever after misreads the drops in leptin caused by weight loss as a starvation signal. This phenomenon provides a biochemical explanation for why so many of those who lose weight end up putting it back on. Our bodies, backed by millions of years of evolution, fight us at every turn...
...recent days showed huge inundated areas where villages had been moved uphill, allowing the government to flood the region without risking life or property. (In addition, dikes have been strengthened and logging banned on the Yangtze's upper reaches: deforestation is a major factor in China's flooding phenomenon...