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...photographs’ referents. In addition, the slides have degraded in the last three-quarters of a century, and enlarging the slides has exaggerated the somewhat splotchy coloring that makes the otherwise impressive miniaturist painting seem careless.RELICS AND ORNAMENTSIt is little surprise, then, that the photographs which sustain and reward lengthy viewings are those that shift the focus away from naturalistic subjects. “Shamanistic mirror worn at exorcism festival” (1923) shows a large, round, ornamented, and polished metal mirror. Surrounded by swatches of a colorful robe, the bright, silvery-blue hue of the mirror is radiant...
...that showed people using cocaine. Scientists observed that subjects’ dopamine levels increased drastically when shown videos of drug use. The experiments, Volkow said, demonstrate the strong connection between memory and craving, and suggest that more effective treatments might focus on disrupting memory rather than affecting only the rewards a drug user experiences. Addictive behavior is often driven by the memory of past drug use rather than the expected rewards of future consumption, said A. Eden Evins, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, after the lecture. More experiments show that addicts have a decreased sensitivity...
...classrooms were open Monday morning at 7, including the three that had been closed off on Friday after university officials received the second bomb threat in as many weeks. They had offered a $5,000 reward to anyone who knew anything and were supposed to meet that morning to discuss security measures. It would be too late before anyone came across a posting on a school online forum, which police now believe was left by Cho: "I'm going to kill people at Vtech today...
...profile of the mass killer looks a lot like the profile of the clinical narcissist, and that's a very bad thing. Never mind the disorder's name, narcissism is a condition defined mostly by disablingly low self-esteem, requiring the sufferer to seek almost constant recognition and reward. When the world and the people in it don't respond as they should, narcissists are not just enraged but flat-out mystified. Cho's multimedia postmortem package exuded narcissistic exhibitionism, and the words he spoke into the camera left no doubt as to what he believed - or wanted to believe...
...fiber and gleeful coprolalia earn him the respect and adulation of the common folk. It took a handful of references to Hillary Clinton as “Satan” and “that buck-toothed witch” (epithets people across the country invoke daily for no reward at all) to win him 1.6 million listeners a week and the sponsorship from Bigelow...