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A Hearing Aid That Cuts Out All the Clatter
The New York Times: After he lost much of his hearing last year at age 57, the composer Richard Einhorn despaired of ever really enjoying a concert or musical again. Even using special headsets supplied by the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway theaters, he found himself frustrated by the sound quality, static and interference. Then, in June, he went to the Kennedy Center in Washington, where his “Voice of Light” oratorio had once been performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, for a performance of the musical “Wicked.” There were no special headphones. This time, the words and music were transmitted to a wireless receiver in Mr.
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Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence
The New York Times: Many decades ago I spent what seemed like a great deal of time under a scorching sun, watching groups of sweaty soldiers as they solved a problem. I was doing my national service in the Israeli Army at the time. I had completed an undergraduate degree in psychology, and after a year as an infantry officer, I was assigned to the army’s Psychology Branch, where one of my occasional duties was to help evaluate candidates for officer training. We used methods that were developed by the British Army in World War II. One test, called the leaderless group challenge, was conducted on an obstacle field.
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Sex-Appeal hilft auf dem Weg zu beruflichem Erfolg
Die Welt: Sie rief aus Estland an. Mit sanfter Stimme, freundlich. Maarja suchte einen Job in einem Berliner Büro für vier Monate. Als sie das erste Mal zwischen unseren drei Schreibtischen stand, blond bis zu den Hüften und mit so strahlend blauen Augen, wie wir Bürostubenhocker sie bisher nur beim vorbeischnürenden Husky des Nachbarn bestaunt hatten, rückte sie sofort in den Mittelpunkt. Maarja war hereingestöckelt, klappte ihren Schirm zu, Regenperlen blitzten an ihrer Hand.
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Memoir About Schizophrenia Spurs Others to Come Forward
The New York Times: Researchers have long wondered how some people with schizophrenia can manage their symptoms well enough to build full, successful lives. But such people do not exactly line up to enroll in studies. For one thing, they are almost always secretive about their diagnosis. For another, volunteering for a study would add yet another burden to their stressful lives. But that is beginning to change, partly because of the unlikely celebrity of a fellow sufferer. In 2007, after years of weighing the possible risks, Elyn R.
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Wenig Unterschiede bei sexuellen Wünschen
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen: Der Sex war bisher die letzte Bastion der fundamentalen psychologischen Geschlechterunterschiede: In sexuellen Vorlieben und Wünschen unterscheiden sich Männer und Frauen, ist die gängige Meinung. Doch aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht wankt nun dieser Befund. Read the full story: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
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Babies are smarter than you think
CNN: In the past 30 years we've learned that babies and young children know more and learn more than we would ever have thought possible. Philosophers and psychologists, even the great Swiss child-development theorist Jean Piaget, once thought that babies and young children were irrational, solipsistic, illogical and amoral -- unable to take the perspective of others or understand cause and effect. But new scientific techniques have taught us that even the youngest infants already know a great deal about objects, people and language, and learn even more. In fact, they have implicit learning methods that are as powerful and intelligent as those of the smartest scientists.
