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...every clause tries to circle back for another try before plunging on.” Even the narration has trouble following the train of thought. Kurton takes stage, joking, “Every divide between the Two Cultures is bridgeable, except this one: humanists write out their talks and scientists extemporize.” With his mixture of humorous anecdotes and general charisma, Kurton emerges the clear winner. Modernity, Powers illustrates, shuffles the artist’s and the scientist’s roles: as the artist appeals to reason, the scientist to emotion and narrative.This conflation of the sciences...
...findings...suggest[s] that businesses are vulnerable, particularly to widespread absenteeism,” said Gillian K. SteelFisher, a research scientist and the assistant director of the research program...
...using a mobile phone, it's possible that users won't be aware of it until it's too late - just as it took doctors decades to connect cigarette-smoking with lung cancer. "We all wish we'd heeded the early warnings about cigarettes," says Olga Naidenko, a senior scientist at EWG and the author of the recent report on cell phones. "We think cell phones are similar...
...team led by cognitive scientist Josef Topl of the Research Institute for Psychology in Hungary recently ran an experiment to study how 10-month-old babies pay attention to people. The scientists put a toy under one of two cups and then let the children choose which cup to pick up. The children, of course, picked the right cup--no surprise since they saw the toy being hidden. Topl and his colleagues repeated the trial several times, always hiding the toy under the same cup, until finally they hid it under the other one. Despite the evidence...
...breaks the temporary monopoly a pharmaceutical company holds on a product that is guaranteed by its patent. With more companies able to produce a product, free-market competition drives down its price, and as its cost decreases, more people gain access to the drug. At present, unless a Harvard scientist takes special initiative to include clauses that promote global access in the license of her compound, she essentially relinquishes control over the future of her research at the time of licensing. After this point, the pharmaceutical company has free reign over the cost of the drug, and global access...