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How to Look Like a Lesbian Without Even Trying
âUgh. I hate those pictures. I look like such a lesbian in them,â my cousin explained to me while her family and I sat around their kitchen table. After she said this, her younger brother laughed into his chicken noodle soup and she hit him over the head. âShut up. Iâm telling you. Theyâre so bad,â she said. As the conversation went on, I learn that she was referring to pictures that had been taken at one of her lacrosse practices. The important part is that she was displeased with the photos. And itâs certainly not because someone had caught her in a tryst with a woman and taken pictures of the incident. [excerpt
You Can\u27t Always Get What You Want
My parents used to tell me that I wasnât entitled to anythingâthat I should be happy with what I have and not assume that I deserved something unless I had worked for it. Either way, entitlement is something that Iâve been thinking about a lot lately. So what do I think Iâm entitled to? Iâm not really sure. Maybe Iâm entitled to making my own choices about what Iâm going to do after graduation or having friends that treat me well. Maybe not. [excerpt
Gay After Graduation
I first went public with my sexual orientation over Surge last springâmy last semester at Gettysburg before graduation. I was scared, but ultimately lucky to be met with support from my friends and family. People generally accepted my sexuality and then moved on. Actually, life went on so quickly that it took me some time to catch up. [excerpt
Mobile Activism: What Your Profile Picture Says About You
I know youâve all been seeing this image all of your Facebook news feeds. All of the sudden a few weeks ago it became everyoneâs profile picture. People were sharing it, along with other images, explaining why Prop. 8 and the Defense Of Marriage Act should be repealed, and were generally expressing their support of marriage equality. [excerpt
When do children learn from unreliable speakers?
Children do not necessarily disbelieve a speaker with a history of inaccuracy; they take into account reasons for errors. Three- to 5 year-olds (N = 97) aimed to identify a hidden target in collaboration with a puppet. The puppetâs history of inaccuracy arose either from false beliefs, or occurred despite his being fully informed. On a subsequent test trial, childrenâs realistic expectation about the target was contradicted by the puppet who was fully informed. Children were more likely to revise their belief in line with the puppetâs assertion when his previous errors were due to false beliefs. Children who explained this puppetâs prior inaccuracy in terms of false belief were more likely to believe the puppet than those who did not. As childrenâs understanding of the mind advances, they increasingly balance the risk of learning falsehoods from unreliable speakers against that of rejecting truths from speakers who made excusable errors
How robust is a thermal photon interpretation of the ALICE low-p_T data?
We present a rigorous theoretical analysis of the ALICE measurement of
low-p_T direct-photon production in central lead-lead collisions at the LHC
with a centre-of-mass energy of \sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76 TeV. Using NLO QCD, we
compute the relative contributions to prompt-photon production from different
initial and final states and the theoretical uncertainties coming from
independent variations of the renormalisation and factorisation scales, the
nuclear parton densities and the fragmentation functions. Based on different
fits to the unsubtracted and prompt-photon subtracted ALICE data, we
consistently find T = 304 \pm 58 MeV and 309 \pm 64 MeV for the effective
temperature of the quark-gluon plasma (or hot medium) at p_T \in [0.8;2.2] GeV
and p_T \in [1.5;3.5] GeV as well as a power-law (p_T^{-4}) behavior for p_T >
4 GeV as predicted by QCD hard scattering.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
Getting the picture : iconicity does not affect representation-referent confusion
Three experiments examined 3- to 5-year-olds' (N = 428) understanding of the relationship between pictorial iconicity (photograph, colored drawing, schematic drawing) and the real world referent. Experiments 1 and 2 explored pictorial iconicity in picture-referent confusion after the picture-object relationship has been established. Pictorial iconicity had no effect on referential confusion when the referent changed after the picture had been taken/drawn (Experiment 1) and when the referent and the picture were different from the outset (Experiment 2). Experiment 3 investigated whether children are sensitive to iconicity to begin with. Children deemed photographs from a choice of varying iconicity representations as best representations for object reference. Together, findings suggest that iconicity plays a role in establishing a picture-object relation per se but is irrelevant once children have accepted that a picture represents an object. The latter finding may reflect domain general representational abilities
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