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Ideally, the clean-energy debate would be a purely scientific one—the science of the atmosphere and of energy production is one that can be quantified and studied dispassionately and objectively. Unfortunately, the science tends to get lost in the political noise. In general, Republicans tend to dismiss the effects of climate change or at least believe they are less important than the enormous economic costs of changing energy sources; Democrats tend to put a huge emphasis on stemming climate-change effects, up to and including making sometimes questionable technological decisions...
...more specific contribution, I hope that my work will eventually show the tremendous importance of early experience—the difference between good mothering and bad mothering in chimp society. The offspring of the mothers who are less protective, less supportive, less affectionate, less playful—they tend to be tense and nervous in their interactions with others and they’re not as successful...
...People tend to distance themselves from a feeling of vulnerability, and the only way to make emotionally difficult topics more realistic and more relevant to their lives is to have more people talking about it,” Marine says...
Chen, who created the blog Sex and the Ivy as a student at Harvard, said that middle school and high school sex education programs tend to preach abstinence by emphasizing the failure rates of most forms of birth control and the emotional and psychological harms accompanying premarital...
...working on an expos paper right now. I still have two finals. [And how much time do you have left?] This [paper] is due tomorrow, but I've been working on it for four or five days. [Gestures to two foot high stack of books.] I tend to overdo checking out books. Obviously. I haven't read all of these, I promise...