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Competing motivational brain responses predict costly helping
A new study reveals that brain signals elicited by the sight of someone suffering pain differ as a function of whether we identify positively or negatively with that person and...
Half-time gamblers give stock market insight
Computer-modeled comparison of online football gamblers' behavior during play and during half-time shows distinct real-time differences, raising the question: What motivates betting behavior when play is not underway?
In the spirit of an intrepid reporter
David L. Halberstam died doing what he loved, hunting down a story. The intrepid author, reporter, and Harvard graduate who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War, which...
7 Percent of Babies Now Have Email Addresses
They may not know how to use a computer yet, but a recent poll revealed that some children as young as six months already have an online presence, including their...
You may not be able to say how you feel about your race
INDIANAPOLIS -- A new study from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis looks at how much African Americans and whites favor or prefer their own racial...
Poll: Technology brings connection, stress
(AP) -- Technology has become so entwined with college students' often frantic lives that most in a new survey say they'd be more frazzled without it.
Belarusian scholar enrolls at GSAS
Volha Charnysh, a 2010 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholar, has enrolled at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The foundation awards graduate scholarships to students who have also received...
Fancy footwork
In the Crimson’s opening game against Stanford, men’s soccer coach Carl Junot noticed a sign of the times: packed bleachers. Junot, the Virginia B. and James O. Welch ’52 Head Coach, is...
A look inside Currier House
Five staff photographers will offer close-ups of the interests, activities, and personalities inside five Harvard Houses in installments over the course of the academic year. In the second of the series, Rose Lincoln...
Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government Peterson traces American public schools through their reformers, and addresses a new era of virtual learning in which families have greater choice and control...
Gwynne Blakemore Evans
Gwynne Blakemore Evans, the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and the foremost Shakespearean textual scholar of his day, was born in Columbus, Ohio, on March 31, 1912....
Brendan Arnold Maher
Brendan Maher combined, in near perfect balance, extraordinary intelligence, restrained skepticism, an uncanny ability to detect foolishness, and an inspiring style of leadership throughout a long, distinguished career. Brendan added to this quartet impeccable...
How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents
Nearly 95 percent of parents think their own children are overindulged; now Bromfield, a clinical instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychology, lays down rules — “take back the...
HAA announces 2011 class marshals
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced the 2011 class marshals on Sept. 28. Seniors Talal M. Alhammad, Moira E. Forberg, Robert G.B. Long, Samuel B. Novey, Tobias S. Stein, Kurt Tsuo,...
Eurasian Conference Begins Confidently
International Meetings: Call to boycott gathering falls flat.
Woman desperate after sick husband jailed
A Winnipeg woman says she's desperate to get her mentally ill husband out of jail after he was charged more than a month ago and held in custody in connection...
Reframing the New Atheism debate | Ed Halliwell
The centrality of consciousness should be acknowledged, rather than seeing the debate as purely scientific or religiousAlmost two weeks on from the After New Atheism event at the RSA and the trail...
Figuring out suicidal behavior
Matthew Nock is the son of an auto mechanic, a Harley-Davidson aficionado, and the first member of his family to graduate from college. He’s now also a tenured member of the Harvard...
Americans’ life expectancy continues to fall behind other countries’
New York, NY, October 7, 2010 -- The United States continues to lag behind other nations when it comes to gains in life expectancy, and commonly cited causes for our...
Poverty grows in suburbs, but social services don’t keep up
Poverty has grown in America's suburbs during the recent economic downturn, but poor people in many suburban communities are finding it hard to get the help they need, a report...
The fight against cancer needs to be an asymmetric warfare; reflections on the death of a friend
A black man was killed a few days ago. No, it’s not gang violence. It’s neither drug related nor a party in the ‘housing projects’ gone out of hand. ...
Draft trade pact more palatable to tech companies
(AP) -- For three years, technology and telecommunications companies have watched nervously from the sidelines as the United States and nearly a dozen trading partners have negotiated a trade...
POP Science: Nefarious Numbers
What is on the mind of all the physicists all over the world right now? Quantum Gravity? Global warming? No. It is the same that is on the mind of...
7 Absolutely Evil Medical Experiments
From intentional STD infection by the U.S. government to Nazi war crimes, not everything done in the name of science is justifiable.
Wet, muddy conditions can lead to lameness and mastitis in dairy herds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Continuing autumn rains are producing conditions that can increase lameness and mastitis in dairy herds in South Dakota.
Is man's best friend also child's best therapist?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bonding with a dog sounds like the perfect remedy for children who have lost their trust in people, and BYU undergrad Trisha Markle wants to quantifiably confirm whether...
Sociologist ties childhood bullying traits to adult anti-social behavior
Is an adult with a history of childhood bullying more likely to be homeless, a compulsive liar, or someone who scams another person out of money? According to a new...
Can Making Science Fun Woo The Next Generation?
Science comedian Brian Malow ties much of science to growing up in a happily dysfunctional family. He asks: What if the driving force behind the evolutionary patterns of homo erectus was...