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...site keeps a log of all chats, IAC is taking a hands-off approach to monitoring what goes on at Zwinktopia. "It' s going to be a learning process," says Dorcas Casey, IAC's director of product strategy, when asked where the company draws the line on inappropriate behavior. If Zwinktopia really hopes to attract kids aged 13 and up without sending their parents into cardiac arrest, it might want to speed that process...
Last year, only athletes participated in the program. Their responses, though anonymous, were grouped by team and released to the coaches, allowing the coaches to monitor their team’s behavior, Travia said. About 525 people participated and the team with the most attendance won a prize, he added...
...proposals he and his colleagues are considering. Where is the nuanced discussion of climate change regulatory schemes, such whether carbon taxes are better than cap-and-trade systems and fuel economy standards? Where do the Kerrys stand on whether the federal government should use its power to alter personal behavior, either through taxing carbon fuels or subsidizing small-scale renewable energy systems? And what about global environmental agreements—such as how an ideal Kyoto Protocol should be structured—and the sorts of environmental protections should be written into free trade deals? These final questions should...
...This is a sad and unfortunate event,” Daniel E. Hastings, the dean for undergraduate education, said in a statement. “But the integrity of the Institute is our highest priority, and we cannot tolerate this kind of behavior...
...observed that subjects’ dopamine levels increased drastically when shown videos of drug use. The experiments, Volkow said, demonstrate the strong connection between memory and craving, and suggest that more effective treatments might focus on disrupting memory rather than affecting only the rewards a drug user experiences. Addictive behavior is often driven by the memory of past drug use rather than the expected rewards of future consumption, said A. Eden Evins, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, after the lecture. More experiments show that addicts have a decreased sensitivity to the effects of drugs, can only...