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This is not the only study to have suggested that disbelief and moral outrage may be processed in the area of the brain that makes us go "Blechh." Sam Bowles, professor of human behavior at the Santa Fe Institute, describes research in which an unfair business deal produced a response in the same region. How did disgust get involved in the belief-and-disbelief business? Some think it started as a fairly straightforward adaptation to enable a suspicious taste, smell or appearance--like that of vermin--to trigger the impulse to eliminate the source. We may have then generalized that...
Believing or disbelieving something is always as much about feeling as fact. Sam Harris, a doctoral candidate at UCLA, wanted to see what that means in physiological terms. To many readers, Harris is best known for his antireligious book The End of Faith. But he is also a neuroscientist. In a study reported in the Annals of Neurology, Harris presented 14 people with 360 statements designed to elicit belief, disbelief or uncertainty. He tracked their brain response with a functional magnetic resonance imager (fMRI) and got some very revealing results...
...never really thought of myself as “American” until I went abroad. I mean, sure, I am a citizen of the United States of America, but until recently I was reluctant to identify myself too closely with Uncle Sam. During the first part of my study-abroad experience, when I spoke of America, it was often with embarrassment: embarrassment about our cheesy pop music, our high pollution rates, and our Republican president...
Freshman Derick Chui captured two backstroke victories in the 100 and 200-meter events, while senior Sam Wollner followed suit with wins in the 200 and 400-meter freestyle. Sophomore Mason Brunnick touched the wall just over a second behind Wollner for a second-place finish in the 400. Junior Eric Lynch took first in the 1500-meter freestyle, with teammates Alex Meyer and Blake Lewkowitz taking second and third, respectively. Twin brothers Bill and Dan Jones finished 1-2 in the 100-meter butterfly and 2-3 in the 200-meter butterfly...
...religious coalition in Iowa and airing a TV ad about bonding with one of his POW camp guards over a cross, the man who once denounced Christian-right leaders as "agents of intolerance" is making an 11th-hour appeal to religious voters. Behind John McCain's turnaround: Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, who endorsed the Arizona Senator after ending his own presidential campaign. The case Brownback is making to James Dobson and others is that McCain's anti-abortion record, foreign policy credentials and electability deserve a second look...