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...Studies show that laboratory mice can smell too-similar MHC in the urine of other mice and will avoid mating with those individuals. In later work conducted at the University of Bern in Switzerland, human females were asked to smell T shirts worn by anonymous males and then pick which ones appealed to them. Time and again, they chose the ones worn by men with a safely different MHC. And if the smell of MHC isn't a deal maker or breaker, the taste is. Saliva also contains the compound, a fact that Haselton believes may partly explain the custom...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...stars, you need to offer star salaries...The creation or restoration of a great scientific institution is not a matter of real estate development,” Watson wrote in his recently released autobiography entitled “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science...
...curricula and to prepare the faculty to make such aspirations a reality. An overly hasty implementation process would undermine the new system before it has time to establish itself. Gen Ed requires a period of development and nurturing—prior to implementation—precisely in order to avoid the very same flaws in execution that plague the Core...
...million if the movie does well. Negotiations are still underway. Even without that deal, Knut's presence has earned the zoo millions of dollars in extra admission and merchandising fees. Nuremberg's zookeepers say that their initially cool response to saving the endangered cubs was meant to avoid another round of "knutmania"; one official insisted that baby giraffes were just as cute. But the reaction to the first photos of the new baby bear suggests that the fascination has hardly faded in Germany, whatever Hollywood decides to do. With reporting by Stephanie Kirchner