Word: primal
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Specialized neurons are being found that allow us to mirror the behavior of people around us, helping us learn such primal skills as walking and eating as well as how to become social, ethical beings. The mystery of memory is being teased apart, exposing the way we store facts and experiences in addition to the emotional flavors associated with them. Magnetic resonance imaging is probing the brain as it operates, essentially--if crudely--reading our minds, and raising all the attendant ethical questions...
...lead singer of “Tommy and the Tigers” (and some other band), is taking his act to the small screen—on American Idol! That’s right. A certain sophomore of www.boredatlamont.com fame ran Primal Scream with “B@L” scrawled on his abdomen and “Agree” “Disagree” written on either thigh. After a recent bash two Harvardians hit the Charles’ dinky “ice rink,” sliding penguin style in their penguin suits. Their...
...Primal Scream has remarkably little to do with hedonistic urges. It’s a further desexualization of an already desexualized place. I hear at Stanford, one mid-trimester tradition entails an hour-long make-out session between strangers under the full moon. Now that’s what I call primal...
...Primal Scream, like so many other features of Harvard life, is filled with tradition. And symbolic traditions—ranging from the state (anthems, flags), to religious creeds (Mecca, Stars of David)—keep institutions alive...
...primal scream is a symbol of more than just tradition. It seems fitting that such a salient symbol of Harvard tradition should be comprised of several hundred nude Ivory Tower dwellers who, eager to escape their daily, uptight, and proper image, throw off the repression with their clothes and take to the Yard...