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...only does kissing serve the utilitarian purpose of providing a sample of MHC, but it also magnifies the other attraction signals--if only as a result of proximity. Scent is amplified up close, as are sounds and breaths and other cues. And none of that begins to touch the tactile experience that was entirely lacking until intimate contact was made. "At the moment of a kiss, there's a rich and complicated exchange of postural, physical and chemical information," says Gallup. "There are hardwired mechanisms that process all this...
...only does kissing serve the utilitarian purpose of providing a sample of MHC, but it also magnifies the other attraction signals-if only as a result of proximity. Scent is amplified up close, as are sounds and breaths and other cues. And none of that begins to touch the tactile experience that was entirely lacking until intimate contact was made. "At the moment of a kiss, there's a rich and complicated exchange of postural, physical and chemical information," says Gallup. "There are hardwired mechanisms that process all this...
Given that our use of mapping functions in the U.S. isn't educational but utilitarian - we consult online maps for little else but driving directions - I felt the uncontrollable urge to delve into the age-old battle-of-the-sexes issue: are men (myself included) unwilling to ask for directions even online? The answer is yes, but only slightly less so than women. The demographics of visitors to the most popular maps-and-directions website in the U.S., Mapquest, reveal that women are only 8% more likely than men to visit the site. Perhaps men are more willing than usual...
...sprawl. I wasn’t surprised that I could hardly breathe after a day in Beijing’s legendary smog, or that the smells and sounds of construction were ubiquitous. The grime that seemed to cover every public space was a familiar presence, and so were the utilitarian, communist lines of much of the city’s architecture.Yet with its enormous size, Beijing contains correspondingly intense artistic extremes. I was familiar with the city’s exceptionally beautiful sights as well as its tough exterior.At a few select, walled-off sites—like the Temple...
Singer's radically utilitarian brand of moral philosophy has its work cut out for it. In the absence of arduous cranial wrestling matches, reason may indeed be, as Hume famously put it, "slave of the passions...