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...University of Bonn in Germany, looks at the brain regions that process reward. Nineteen pairs of subjects performed a series of tasks, estimating the number of dots on a screen, while their brains were scanned. Each time a subject answered correctly, he or she won a cash prize but the prizes were not always the same. Players could see whether their opponents had answered correctly, and how the prize money was distributed...
...researchers were especially interested in the set of outcomes where both players answered correctly. For any given prize value, the brain's reward response was bigger if the other player earned less. Players on average were more pleased with a 60 euro prize when the other player got just 30 euros, for example, than they were if both players earned 60 euros, or if the other player got more...
...can tell when the politicians are getting serious about an issue: they stop taking cheap shots at one another and suddenly become pragmatic. Amazingly, that's happening right now on global warming. Just as the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of "abrupt and irreversible" damage if we don't take immediate action, a serious piece of climate legislation is beginning to pick up speed in the U.S. Senate...
...seems like an ingenious solution,” English professor Louis Menand wrote in an e-mail today. Menand has authored a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on late 19th-century American intellectuals. “But I think we’re meant [by James] to project our own idea onto that deliberate opacity...
...Oxford].” Sarkar, the third Harvard recipient, hails from Edinburgh, Texas, and graduated last June with an A.B. in applied mathematics and a master’s in statistics. According to his biography on the American Web site for the Rhodes Trust, Sarkar wrote a prize-winning thesis on homeless children and intends to focus his study at Oxford on social issues. He could not be reached for comment yesterday afternoon. The awardees were announced over the weekend. A number of the countries where Rhodes Scholarships are awarded had not yet listed winners on their Web sites...