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Liljenquist says the real-life implications of the study could be as simple as an office investing more in janitorial supplies than in expensive and intrusive surveillance equipment to keep workers in line. Other olfactory researchers suggest, however, that perhaps it wasn't the clean smell that made people more virtuous in the new study, but rather the smell of citrus; that is, people may have behaved better because they smelled something they liked, rather than something "clean." "It could be simply that a positive smell creates a positive mood, which encourages positive behavior. You cannot conclude it is cleanliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do 'Clean' Smells Encourage Clean Behavior? | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...though, the bladeless fan will cost as much as a couple of weeks' worth of groceries. That's a prohibitively steep price for many Americans in simple need of a fan. So may we suggest that Dyson entice buyers by throwing in the wormhole attachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dyson's Bladeless Fan: Worth the Hefty Cost? | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...complete, published study results, which include three analyses of the data, suggest that the experimental vaccine may be far less effective than the authors had originally indicated. The vaccine appears to have been slightly more protective among low- or average-HIV-risk participants than among high-risk individuals, like sex workers or intravenous drug users, and its effect appears to wane after the first year. (See TIME's photo-essay "Access to Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The AIDS Vaccine: Modest Results, but a Sign of Hope | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...little confidence that Harvard is addressing the scope and nature of the current problems,” the nine alumni wrote. They said that the University’s annual financial report, which was released on Friday, “fail[ed] to acknowledge any fundamental mistakes or to suggest any major changes in the way the endowment is managed...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alumni Call for Lower HMC Pay | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...Despite well-founded fears of the rising cost of an open-ended war, Obama does not want to be the President who presided over a defeat in Afghanistan. In which case, his options are a lot narrower than the weeks of debate over the issue suggest, regardless of how the election debacle plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Escalation Obama's Only Choice in Afghanistan? | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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