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...like most people, you do a lot of routine things in any given day - running errands, say, or e-mailing or doing laundry. And like most people, you've probably never stopped to wonder whether the pattern of your routine behavior fits into some sort of universal mathematical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Sorry I Haven't Written': A Scientific Explanation | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Sorry I Haven't Written': A Scientific Explanation | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...Today I went to UHS because I had a stomach ache. They told me I had a miscarriage. I’ve never even...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer | Title: HarvardFML.com | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...project to the world. In the run-up to the Commonwealth Games, India has displayed the same touchiness about its self-image as the other rising Asian giant, China. "It's the same case with all Asian cultures," says Joshi. "They want to showcase their modernity to show they've arrived. Take spitting, for instance. In Singapore, China, India ... it's seen as something that belongs to the past and should be left behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can India Tame Its Intractable Capital? | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...ve had a number of months now of a cessation of rocket fire, proactive action by the government here in Gaza to stop the rocket fire. And yet we have no positive development in terms of the siege and other actions that have been taken, which are crippling the whole society here," John Ging, head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, told TIME on Sunday. "It's a tinderbox, this place, ready to explode at any time." After a cross-border attack on the recent Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Israeli army released a statement warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Cease-Fire with Hamas: Close to Snapping? | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

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