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...most accounts, students spend a heck of a lot of time logged onto Facebook, a circumstance that irks educators, who complain of students messaging friends or posting snarky status updates from their laptops instead of paying attention to lectures. It was this habit that first got Karpinski interested in the topic while she was earning her master's degree in developmental psychology at West Virginia University. "When I became a teacher's assistant, I started noticing my students' using [Facebook] and becoming obsessed with it," says Karpinski - who is not on Facebook, despite her fellow classmates' badgering efforts...
...model for how this critical discourse can occur. In 2007, students organized a series of panels entitled “Finding Animals” and “Animal Crossings,” in which legal scholars, philosophers, literary theorists, theologians, and artists discussed the social and moral status of animals. Over 300 members of the Harvard community attended, with biologists challenging panel members on animal experimentation and political scientists disputing the ramifications of granting legal protections to animals...
...European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Attali won fame for calling the U.S. financial collapse as early as 2006 - giving him more credibility than the average soothsayer. However, many of his predictions range from the absurd to the, well... predictable. His belief that Israel must keep its status as a regional power in order to survive is not exactly rocket science, while his belief that a utopia of altruistic "transhumans" will emerge from the ashes of mid-21st century planetary warfare is a bit hard to swallow...
...debt of municipalities has long been a staple of many investors' portfolios. Financial professionals and their clients have been lured by munis' tax-free status, a history of few defaults and nearly three decades of low single-digit annual returns...
...hunters, while women, as gatherers, were responsible for obtaining vegetables. Studies have demonstrated an inverse relationship in premodern societies between women’s empowerment and the importance of meat: The more limited women’s economic position as food providers, the more circumscribed their social status. Processing plants may have replaced man in his role as hunter, but he still demands control over the preparation and cooking of meat, most notably through the masculine pastime of “grilling...