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...kids had outperformed the apes across the board, on both types of task, it would have supported the "just generally smarter overall" theory. The fact that the children excelled in specific areas suggest it's the other theory that's right - that our ability to cooperate and share expertise has allowed us to build complex societies, collaborate and learn from each other at a high level, and use symbolic representation (writing, numerals, imagery) to communicate ideas...
Sarkozy's strategy of perpetual movement thrills the media and public - and ensures he's already gone on to the next activity by the time people start asking questions about the results of the last one. Sarkozy must now get down to the often uncomfortable task of doing what's right rather than what's popular. Governing isn't a theatrical, superficial task...
...spearheading a federal task force, which includes the Commerce Department and Consumer Product Safety Commission, focusing on how to control the lead hazard in imported toys and other consumer products. In the meantime, Binns hopes that looking at toys will serve as "a good prompt to look at your entire home." Research shows that 2 out of 3 homes built before 1940 have lead in a hazardous condition...
...famously used the term cognitive dissonance to describe the discomfort we feel when our behaviors don't align with our beliefs. Festinger found that people will go to great lengths to reduce dissonance. In one well-known experiment, those who had been asked to falsely claim that a boring task--placing spools on a tray, for instance--was fun were later found to have persuaded themselves that the task really was fun. They had crossed over from hypocrisy to something more pathetic: self-deception. In this light, getting married, having kids and advancing conservatism looks more like a heartfelt, doomed...
...political meltdown in Baghdad, the utter inability of Iraqis to figure out a way to govern themselves. It has little or nothing to do with the country's Shi'ite majority. Indeed, the U.S. military has had comparatively little interaction with Shi'ites outside Baghdad during the occupation. That task was left to the British and other coalition forces stationed in the Shi'ite heartland down south...