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Writer describes the ways humans are fueling ‘The Sixth Extinction’

By Guest PostNovember 20, 2014Culture, MediaCO2, david papp, effect against tumors, english, fossil fuels, hirnregionen mit doppelfunktion, humans, industrial revolution, johanna derix, olga glanz, produktion von sprache, radiation therapy algorithm, radiation therapy treatments, Shakespeare, spatiotemporal fractionation, tolstoy, writer

“I see myself as a translator who translates science into a language that someone like me, a literature major, can understand,” said New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert during a recent talk on campus. “Science tends to be written in a very different language, one that non-scientists can’t relate to, a language that isn’t even English.” (more…)

Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans

By Guest PostJuly 16, 20101 commentCultureamericans, brooding, daniel katz dissertation fellowship, dostoyevsky, ethan kross, ethnographers, igor grossmann, isr, psychological science, psychology, russians, social research, tolstoy, ukraine, university of michigan, westerners

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners do.

But a new University of Michigan study finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result.

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Writer describes the ways humans are fueling ‘The Sixth Extinction’

Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans