Gov. John Kitzhaber said he would halt a scheduled execution and allow no others during his time in office.   Governor Kitzhaber said his decision was rooted in policy and personal views. He noted he had taken an oath as a physician to “nev…

Professor Simon Baron Cohen, of the Cambridge Autism Research Centre, is the guest speaker for the final Science Society seminar of the term. He will consider “The Nature of Empathy: Perspectives from Psychiatry” at 6.00pm on Friday 3 June in the O…

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A look at the ways that the construction of language can have implications for the way we think, act and parse the world around us.Jim Manske’s insight:For me, this is confirmation that how we speak affects how we think and therefore how we perceive a…