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...complete a series of simple arithmetic problems, you're sober enough to decide if you really want to e-mail your ex-boyfriend and tell him you still love him. With Mail Goggles enabled, Gmail will send your e-mails only after you have completed five arithmetic problems within 60 seconds. By default, the feature activates during weekend nights between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., although the settings allow you to change the date and time. If you're more of a Tuesday afternoon drunk, Mail Goggles will be there for you. Of course, at that point, you might have...
...part of the brain that takes over when we are frightened is called the amygdala. It's an ancient, almond-shaped mass of nuclei located deep within the brain's temporal lobes. The amygdala is designed to be wildly sensitive to certain things - for instance, anything uncontrollable and unfair (like a terrorist attack involving an airplane) - and remarkably forgiving toward other, far deadlier menaces that seem to be small in scale (car crashes) or involve less suffering (heart attacks...
...months, there is a lot of physical aggression among kids," Boivin notes, but most children manage to adjust socially and eventually develop the verbal skills needed to negotiate peacefully within a group. "Aggression becomes less and less of a normative way to get things done," he says. But children on the high-risk path appear unable to develop those social skills; their aggression ends up turning on them. "As children get older, in grade school, they slowly shift their aggression and tend to withdraw into shyness," Boivin said...
...violated a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act, which states that "each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust." Branchflower went on to say that Palin was within her right as Governor to fire Monegan, but by allowing the personal matter with Wooten to contribute to her decision, she had done wrong...
...current credit crisis gripping Wall Street and the nation, Schieffer says: "This is not the work of those who broke the law. It is the work of those operating within the law, those who pushed the law to the limit making loans the law allowed but, common sense dictated, should not have been made. ... deregulation has become all the rage ... if we somehow get past this, we must get serious about laws that ensure it never happens again...