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...there a practical application here? He speculates that if belief brain scanning were sufficiently refined it could act as an accurate lie detector and help control for the placebo effect in drug design...
Think of carbon dioxide, the main gas that causes global warming, and you'll likely picture a polluting factory in China; neon lights in Tokyo, an SUV sitting in traffic on the freeways of Santa Monica. But while industry, electricity and transportation all add to the greenhouse effect, there's another villain less well known: our forests. Or, rather, the lack of them. Forests, especially in the lush tropics, suck and store carbon, which is released when trees are cut down or burnt. At the current rate of destruction, deforestation is estimated to account for up to 20% of human...
Fitzsimmons said the fact that Harvard doesn’t have early action could depress the yield, though he added that the effect could be the opposite if Harvard ends up being students’ least expensive option...
Fitzsimmons explained that other schools have several months remaining in which to adjust their own plans for financial aid, so it is “impossible to know” what the total effect on Harvard’s yield might be. The recruiting efforts of other schools are also an important factor, he said...
...more than any of this, what struck me was van Valkenburgh’s explanation of architecture’s effect on the soul, which he later wrote me in an email...