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...certain what's behind the differences, though he suspects hormones may play a significant role. He did get a better sense of the areas of the brain those hormones affect most, owing to the fact that he used a long-running PET scan rather than a shorter session with a functional magnetic resonance imager (fMRI), which is how such studies are usually conducted. This afforded him a good look at the amygdala, the deepest and most primitive of the brain structures involved. When the amygdala acts up, it's exceedingly hard to bring it to heel, as anyone suffering from...
...quickly emerged as, as the New York Times put it recently, a kind of Davos for the postcarbon set. And while much of the rest of the world is using the financial crisis as an excuse to put off the transition to cleaner power, in the WFES's opening session today, Abu Dhabi announced that it had pledged that 7% of its energy would come from renewable sources by 2020, up from nothing today. "This is really a very powerful image," says Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, one of the summit...
...Economics Humor Session is the AEA conference's first attempt to inject a little levity into an annual confab that noneconomists might charitably describe as dry. "You can count on one hand all the funny economists in the world," says R. Preston McAfee, a California Institute of Technology economics professor and Yahoo! research fellow who presided over the evening. But despite their rarity, some of these academics have attracted wide followings--admittedly, among those who can laugh at supply-demand curves. Yoram Bauman, a professor at the University of Washington, bills himself as the World's First and Only Stand...
...write in your book about attending an FAA workshop on surviving plane crashes. What were some of the most important tips that you can recall from that session...
...Change, has used the campaign's databases to stay organized and has begun working with local black churches and other community groups to plan a local health fair for later this summer. The Randallstown group has partnered with Urban Influence magazine, which targets black professionals, to organize a training session in Baltimore on the Saturday before Inauguration for community groups, withworkshops on everything from the civil rights of protesters to the use of stock proxies in engaging corporations. Political events like this will take place alongside apolitical blood, food and book drives. (There are 81 events listed within...