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...Soundsystem Still a little avant-garde for the Grammys, but usually the committee finds a way to reward fringe bands within their genres. Not this time. Mika and the over-the-hill Chemical Brothers get nods for best dance recording while LCD's brilliant Sound of Silver gets nothing. Except perhaps a little more credibility...
...prolific professor also published a book in 2004, “Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America’s Health Care System,” where he argues for a system that would reward doctors not for the quantity of treatments performed, but for the quality of patient health, thereby cutting down on unnecessary procedures and unfocused care...
...daring because agents of social change are often controversial. That goes with the territory,” said Gergen, who is also a professor at the Kennedy School. About one-third of the money will go toward the awards, according to Gergen. Another third will fund student fellowships that reward social entrepreneurship, and the last third will finance visiting scholars and other academic programs. Cheri Rosché, Gleitsman’s partner and the secretary and treasurer of the Gleitsman Foundation, said that the idea for the gift was born over years of cooperation with the Kennedy School, which often...
...study, by cognition experts and economists at the 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...