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...those desires is that a possible partner smells right. Good smells and bad smells are fundamentally no different from each other; both are merely volatile molecules wafting off an object and providing some clue as to the thing that emitted them. Humans, like all animals, quickly learn to assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect us in equally...
...those desires is that a possible partner smells right. Good smells and bad smells are fundamentally no different from each other; both are merely volatile molecules wafting off an object and providing some clue as to the thing that emitted them. Humans, like all animals, quickly learn to assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect us in equally...
...year-old girl, and now lives in Glen Ellen, California. "The Nazis offered the Ukrainians their own state if they worked with them, so they worked with them," she says. "It is a pure miracle that I got away." But Desbois insists he is not looking to assign blame. "I do not ask who is guilty and who is not guilty," he says. "I deal just with victims...
...entirely made up of middle-aged white men - then asked the volunteers to rate the executives on personality traits, and how well they thought the person would lead a company. The study controlled for the CEOs' age, emotional expression and attractiveness (it's well-known that people tend to assign positive traits to the good-looking), and threw out data from participants who recognized any of the executives...
...suggestions. Although these regulations are useful tools that improve consistency in sentencing, they can constrain judges by preventing them from considering cases in light of mitigating circumstances. Empowering judges to evaluate cases more thoroughly, without fear of being overruled by an appeals court, will free judges to assign the most appropriate punishments. The case of crack cocaine illustrates just how important this judicial freedom is. Though derivatives of the same chemical substance, crack and powdered cocaine violations are punished very differently. According to what has been deemed the “100-to-1” rule, federal guidelines suggested...