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Mustering only five shots for the game, Harvard could never quite find an offensive flow to rival its opponent’s, and when they zeroed in on the net, Northeastern’s goaltender Lizzie Priest proved up to the task...
Though Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith has stressed the significance of the six FAS working groups in closing the school’s projected $110 million annual deficit, the committees have made mixed progress in their task of drafting the highly anticipated budgetary proposals aimed at closing that...
Harnessing the placebo effect does not seem a particularly easy, or even feasible, task: beating the best of 200 years of scientific discovery, invention, and insight with just inert sugar. But the evidence remains embarrassingly clear that the placebo effect is real—and more important than we may care to admit. A recent article in Wired magazine explained the trend: “From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after Phase II clinical trials, when drugs are first tested against placebo, rose by 20 percent.” And 50 percent...
...turns out that just three mechanisms combine to explain both activities. The first is our propensity to continue repeating a task once we've started: "Once you send one e-mail or write one letter, you tend to do another," says Malmgren. The second is our circadian sleep-wake cycle, which limits the available time we have to devote to letter-writing. The third is that we typically work on the same days each week, further restricting when and how long we spend getting in touch with friends. (See TIME's brain covers...
That work includes extra film review sessions and meetings with coaches, an everyday task for Winters...