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...smelly durian is like a thornless rose. It's really cutting out the soul.' BOB HALLIDAY, Bangkok-based food writer, on a Thai scientist's development of an odorless variety of durian, a popular Asian fruit so pungent it is banned from some airlines and hotels
...Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Chick-Sent-Me-High-ee) isn't the only social scientist working on this subject. Positive psychology has been exploding in popularity. Systematic measurement of well-being is challenging because its definition is elusive. But researchers at Princeton University have been developing a new technique for collecting data about what activities make people feel good - and what they find bothersome. Many academics employ an older system that Csikszentmihalyi helped develop called the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). Subjects are beeped (via a pager or hand-held device) at random intervals during the day, usually every few hours, at which...
With the dean search placed in Faust’s hands, some professors speculate that Knowles’ successor will be a male scientist both to provide proper balance to the female historian who will occupy Mass. Hall and to help assist in the direction of Harvard’s expansion of the sciences into Allston...
...when a giant surge of the stuff bubbled up from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, asphyxiating 1,700 people as they slept. Nonetheless, investigators involved in the Thornton project insist there is little cause for worry. "The fields held oil and gas for millennia," says Larry Myer, an earth scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and the project's director, "so geologically we know they're going to hold...
With Faust's selection as president and the dean search having been placed in her hands, some professors speculate that Knowles' successor will be a male scientist both to provide proper balance to the female historian who will occupy Mass. Hall and to help assist in the direction of Harvard's expansion of the sciences into Allston...