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...hovering overhead. A series of the two sounds - the "pyow-hack" sequence - served as a command for the group to move to safer ground. Roughly translated, that would be: "Let's go!" Scientists have long known that some animals vocalize sounds to express emotion. Captive chimps have been taught hand signals, and dolphins use sounds to communicate with each other. But the new research shows that monkeys add meaning to their limited vocabulary by combining calls into phrases, an ability previously ascribed only to humans. Monkey talk may sound like gibberish to the human ear, but to monkeys it makes...
Brickell says the experience taught her that learning to see the world from the patient's point of view isn't squishy science; it's a way to get the kind of results everyone wants from the medical system. "Doctors aren't supposed to feel sorry for their patients. They're supposed to fix them," says Brickell. "And I think this program will help us do that...
...System--the little left of it, that is--went through five hellish days after Katrina waiting for someone to rescue 367 patients at the flooded facility. He was siphoning gas from National Guard trucks to run generators to sustain the critically ill; eight patients died. "Our experience in Katrina taught us the same thing our parents taught us--to be self-sufficient, self-responsible, disciplined and organized," he says, a look of humor mixed with pain in his eyes. His staff members kidded him when he showed up the night before Katrina with a "hurricane box" containing a sledgehammer...
...University’s international activities and act as a resource for its international students and scholars. He will also be a senior adviser to the Faculty dean on international studies. Since arriving at Harvard in 1966 for his MA and later his PhD, Domínguez has taught in the government department for over 30 years. He has also been awarded a Harvard College Professorship. Domínguez’s appointment rounds out the three vice-provost positions created by the University last year for international affairs, research policy, and faculty development and diversity. —Staff...
...life lessons that Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 taught his students in “Positive Psychology” this semester, yesterday’s might have been the most surprising. When you are the instructor of an 856-student class and you find that the final exam is missing, run as fast as you can. At 9:15 a.m., the students in Harvard’s largest course this semester packed seven lecture halls across campus, waiting to take their test. At 10:15 a.m., they were still waiting. Ben-Shahar attributed the lack of exams...