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...seems that birds of a feather do flock together. A new study by members of Harvard’s Sociology Department and a UCLA sociology professor using Facebook to analyze the social habits of undergraduates shows fairly homogenous friend networks among college students...
...stand to profit by doing this. Unlike commercial enterprises who are collecting your data, we are monitored by a third party whose sole purpose is to protect our research subjects,” sociology associate professor Jason Kaufman ’93 said. Kaufman is joined by UCLA sociology professor Andreas Wimmer and Harvard medical sociology professor Nicholas A. Christakis in heading the project...
...current paper recovers Harris's identity as a doctoral candidate in neuroscience at UCLA, his occupation before he commenced what he calls his "extramural affair jumping into trenches in the culture wars." It is an addition to the growing field of brain scan trials, and Harris thinks it may be the first to detail how the brain processes belief. At first read, it seems less dangerous to Christianity than to another cherished pillar of Western thought - that "objective" beliefs like "2 + 2 = 4" and "subjective" beliefs like "torture is bad" belong to entirely separate categories of thought...
...happens in class. That’s not what we study. In many respects Harvard is the perfect place for it because it’s an institution where we can explore this in many profound ways.2.FM: You say that you started studying hip-hop academically while working at UCLA during the fallout after Ice Cube left NWA. How did this turn you to hip-hop? MM: I was teaching a course on urban speech communities, it was a classical anthropology course, and I kept getting all these essays about Ice Cube and so my first reaction...
...UCLA gives priority to students transferring from California community colleges, according to its admissions office Web site...