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NYTimes ScienceTimes: About us humans — 237 reasons for sex, game playing, the subconscious (and other topics too) |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 11:21 am |
| Tags: science stories, health amp medicine stories, environment stories |
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Today’s p.1 in ScienceTimes coheres thematically around why we do what we do. The three up front: one from John Tierney in his Findings column on a survey’s 237 conscious explanations for having sex (variations on lust, procreation, prestige, love, just-gotta-have-it, duty…); a marvelous and surprising lead piece by Benedict Carey on the subconscious mind and its power as well as social suggestibility; and Carl Zimmer on a Harvard *game theorist with interests both theoretical and applied. Also notable is the terrific thematic illus - an evocative bit of mosaic portraiture (Hi res here) by artist Jason Mecier - gracing Carey’s sampling of the latest from the subconscious front. Lots more inside. These other notables include: Claudia Dreifus on Heidi Cullen, PhD researcher-turned-TV climatologist. It tells of the ideological brickbats tossed her way upon entering the media-celebrity-climate arena and, more interesting, her transformation from focussed [ Full article ] |
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