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Google and Apple were among the companies and organizations that visited Boylston Hall on Saturday to woo students to careers outside of law, medicine, and finance. The conference, called Diversity in Careers Awareness (DICA) and designed to help students make contacts in industries like public health and public interest, featured representatives for different fields who participated in one-hour panel discussions, the first of which was focused on education. Joshua Biber, a representative from Teach for America, talked about his own experiences of going to a career fair at Brown University and realizing that he did not like anything there...
...secret that all sorts of critters display elaborate courtship rituals. But the capacity to woo a mate is hardly the same as the capacity to love a mate. Nonetheless, chimps appear to feel sorrow and glee; elephants appear to grieve their dead. Couldn't animals feel romance as well? They could and--to hear at least some scientists tell it--they...
...thing that propels many already committed people to ply the art of woo, however, is often not doubt. It's curiosity. Flirting "is a way of testing one's mate-value and the possibility of alternatives--actually trying to see if someone might be available as an alternative," says Arthur Aron, professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. To evolutionary biologists, the advantages of this are clear: mates die, offspring die. Flirting is a little like taking out mating insurance...
Babies may not have much to do right after they're born, but the stakes are vitally high that they do it right. One of the first skills newborns must learn is how to woo the adults in their world. "For a baby, literally you're going to be dead without love, so getting people around you to love you is a really good strategy," says Alison Gopnik, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley...
...With reporting by Ling Woo Liu/ Hong Kong, Madhur Singh/ Delhi