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...Lucifer Effect” could be a difficult read indeed. Difficult, in this case, does not mean that his writing is dense and complex. Rather, Zimbardo’s prose is sometimes hard to read simply because it isn’t very eloquent. He writes like a scientist: past events come across as if they were entries in a study or report. Like observational entries in a report, sentences are often choppy and transitions seemed somewhat unnatural. But while the text is problematic on the micro-level, on the macro-level, Zimbardo proves to be a masterful narrator...
...been initially inclined to soft-pedal their support for gun control might find it in their interest to defend the principle more forcefully. "Conceivably, the Supreme Court in Parker could do for gun-control advocates what Roe v. Wade did for pro-life advocates," says Robert J. Spitzer, political scientist at SUNY Cortland and author of The Politics of Gun Control. "It could be a catalyzing event." Both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates would have to reassure the political center that they supported modest forms of gun control, but Democrats would be freer to defy the N.R.A. than Republicans...
MARVEL COMICS: Created in 1962 by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby (and originally tinted gray), the Hulk is nuclear scientist Bruce Banner, whose gamma-ray experiments accidentally unlock the rage-driven monster within...
...Damaged central-nervous-system cells may not regrow readily, but the ones that survive a trauma can become more efficient, changing what is known as their central state of excitability--or the threshold at which even a sputtering signal can send them into action. "I don't think any scientist would dispute that a younger body is more plastic in this way," says Harkema...
...immediate lesson is not to take a chainsaw to all of Alaska. “Clear-cutting mountains to slow climate change is, of course, nuts,” wrote Ken Caldeira, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution and one of the study’s authors, in a January op-ed in The New York Times. Slowing global warming while destroying ecosystems is poor policy, he says. But so is blindly planting trees...