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...seen same-gender sex as a uniquely human phenomenon, one of the many ways our famously corruptible species flouts the laws of nature. But nature's morality, it seems, may be remarkably flexible, at least if the new book Biological Exuberance (St. Martin's Press), by linguist and cognitive scientist Bruce Bagemihl, is to be believed. According to Bagemihl, the animal kingdom is a more sexually complex place than most people know--one where couplings routinely take place not just between male-female pairs but also between male-male and female-female ones. What's more, same-sex partners...
First developed by psychologist Barbara Rothbaum and computer scientist Larry Hodges to combat fear of heights, VR exposure therapy works on the principle that if you can train people to relax in a simulation of a scary situation, they will relax when confronted with the real thing. I visited the Virtually Better clinic in Atlanta, which charges $150 for a one-hour session. It provides a headset and plane seat that immerse you in a 3-D virtual airplane, complete with vibrations, engine sounds, flight-attendant call bells, and--at touchdown--tire squeals...
Just as FBI counterespionage agents were drawing a bead on Los Alamos nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee, the files disgorged a curious fact: Lee's wife, Sylvia, had been an FBI "informational asset" at the very time Lee was suspected of passing classified warhead data to the People's Republic of China. From 1985 to 1991, according to well-informed sources, Sylvia Lee, a native Chinese speaker who held a support-staff job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, reported to FBI agents about visiting delegations of PRC scientists. She was not an "operational asset," jargon for paid informant...
...fine arts professor and a space scientist and systems engineer, Bechis lists editor, researcher, inventor, musician, entrepreneur, scholar, athlete and math whiz among his past professions...
...addition to the donation, Gates gave a speech entitled "The Future of Software" yesterday at the LCS, which is celebrating 35 years of research this week. The celebration continues today as Tim Berners-Lee, principle research scientist at the LCS, gives a speech entitled "The Future...