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...making breakfast or are you a slave to your desk until you’ve got one? (i.e is it like turning on a light bulb or pounding in a nail?)Steven Pinker: Nail, definitely nail. I notice things but I only understand them when I try to write about them.2. FM: Speaking of analogies, yours make your theories very accessible. Where do those come from?SP: I’m actually trying to study that and I think, at least I notice in myself a process that I call analogical reminding. It was first discovered or at least noticed...

Author: By Ana P. Gantman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Steven Pinker | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...just remember sometimes having to stay up all night having to write a paper,” Hatch said. “Here, there’s a little less work...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Beantown to Bayou Country | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...More Than Zero "I'm sorry," as Arenas likes to write, but I'm not done with his score-settling, trash-talking, philosophical-waxing Agent Zero Blog, which is not only the best sports blog on the Web, but the best blog, period. Here, for your enjoyment, is more recent Gilbertology: "Can you please take the hockey teams out of basketball arenas? Basketball is not supposed to be played on ice. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's just me, but I hate going to arenas where it's 60 degrees outside and 50 degrees inside. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NBA — Never Bet Against It! | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

TIME: You write that you're against declawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cat Wants You to Know | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

DeWall, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University tested that theory - the so-called "terror management theory" - in a series of experiments involving 432 undergraduate volunteers. About half of the students were asked to contemplate dying and being dead, and to write short essays describing what they imagined happening to them as they physically died. The other half of the group was asked to think and write about dental pain - decidedly unpleasant, but not quite as threatening. The researchers then set about evaluating the volunteers' emotions: First, the students were given standard psychological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Happier Facing Death? | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

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