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Codes of Conduct in the Business World
Though her book The Fountainhead, was written over 60 years ago, Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism remain relevant today, particularly to business ethics, according to APS Fellow Edwin A. Locke, University of Maryland, in his
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With the Brain, Is Seeing Believing?
They’re everywhere these days: colorful images showing the human brain in action. With the advent of CT and PET scans, and now the growing use of functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, researchers’ ability to
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Genetic Environment
The researchers used every medium from Canadian lab mice to Indian Rhesus monkeys to human twins, all in the pursuit of deciphering a condition that profoundly changes the way humans function. The disease is alcoholism
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Dropping The Ball
“If you don’t want to discover true associations, ignore what is going on among modern [statistical] techniques,” said Rand Wilcox, University of Southern California, playfully addressing the overflow audience. Wilcox’s invited address entitled, “More Reasons
