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...fear is a persistent emotion, one embedded by evolution in our lizard brains. That's why there's no precise economic definition of a market panic; it's more a psychological than a fiscal phenomenon, simultaneously anticipatory (you think something terrible will happen) and retrospective (you think you have waited too long to avert disaster). Swimmers being dragged to sea in a rip current often try to swim directly to shore--against the current--and end up exhausting themselves. Panic can kill...
...answers to get at how voters arrive at their decisions. Jackson explains that most voters rely on their emotions and that as many as 28% of voters pick the candidate who does not share their policy goals. He also reveals that the "swing voter" is a psychological phenomenon that cuts across all demographic boundaries, debunking the idea that any one voting bloc has the power to turn the election. And finally, look for the divine Elizabeth Gilbert--author of Eat, Pray, Love--on the back page writing movingly about the political battle in her own family...
...Religulous,” while sure to put Maher on a million shit-lists, challenges what we take for granted in religion, as both a phenomenon and institution. Despite its inevitable bias and self-commentating nature, the film speaks for itself—and it speaks loudly, passionately, and presciently. The job of a comedian is to attack sensitive issues in society in a way that both innocently mocks and pointedly slanders. Maher succeeds, probing into old wounds that refuse to heal. An anthropological affront, “Religulous” reminds us that religion looks a lot like mental...
...representative for the Iraqi History Project Etelle R. Higonnet drew attention to the under-reported phenomenon of sexual violence in Iraq yesterday during a lecture at Harvard Law School. As analysis director for the project, Higonnet called this widespread human rights violation “one of the most revolutionary, interesting and unknown things” in Iraq and said it was a significant aspect of the nation’s past and present struggle. The project, created and funded by the International Human Rights Law Institute at Depaul University, has gathered over 10,000 testimonies from victims, perpetrators...
...prove useful for distilling the specific effect of circumcision - and perhaps for future public-health strategies. "For every insertive man who is protected, there might be a receptive man who isn't infected, for the same reason why women get protected...in other words, from a herd-immunity phenomenon," says Dr. Sten Vermund, director of the Institute for Global Health at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, who co-authored an editorial in the current issue of J.A.M.A...