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People caught up in disasters tend to fall into three categories. About 10% to 15% remain calm and act quickly and efficiently. Another 15% or less completely freak out--weeping, screaming or otherwise hindering the evacuation. That kind of hysteria is usually isolated and quickly snuffed out by the crowd. The vast majority of people do very little. They are "stunned and bewildered," as British psychologist John Leach put it in a 2004 article published in Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine...
...titled "How Necessity Is the Mother of Multitasking," I interview a corporate executive who found herself with triplets and had to learn quickly how to feed them all at once so she could take a nap. In the chapter on coping with stress, I talk about how new mothers tend to make extraordinary kinds of friendships, based on their deep need for other people. I found this to be true in my own life and only later read how great it is for your brain to make and keep strong social connections. It's also probably good for your children...
...project with an interesting legacy. “Family Guy” is something of a bridge between classic animated comedy like “The Simpsons” (to which it bears a number of striking similarities), and the new wave of Adult Swim comedies which tend to repel all but a select core of viewers after a single episode (“Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and “The Brak Show” are prime examples...
...tend to like our action movies to look real. So when a character flies into the clouds, sees a vision of the Buddha, and initiates a magical attack that causes a fifty-foot-wide imprint of his hand to crush his opponent, it’s difficult to take the movie seriously. Also, the fights are often slow and quiet, which throw off the American tendency to associate balls-to-the-wall action with lightspeed moves and witty banter...
...says, though, that “it’s not a lack of willingness,” but more a lack of awareness on the part of faculty members. According to Shaw, faculty members who have more contact with students through their courses or labs tend to advise more thesis writers...