Southern discomfort

Southern discomfort

The ice breaker and research vessel Polarstern, run by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) on a busy schedule making the most of the summer season at each pole, is often involved in good causes, such as collecting data concerning the impact of climate change (see Curr. Biol. (2008) 18, R181). In January, however, she sailed straight into a row in which several NGOs and the German ministry of the...

Southern Discomfort?: PON1 Variation May Help Explain Regional CVD Risk

volume 117 | number 8 | August 2009 • Environmental Health Perspectives Chemicals Policy Gap Toward Stronger Regulation in the United States Chemicals policy in the United States is in need of profound change for both environmental health and economic reasons, according to a review of how the U.S. chemical industry currently is regulated [EHP 117:1202–1209; Wilson and Schwarzman]. The 1976 Toxi...

Southern Discomfort: The Effects of Stereotype Threat on the Intellectual Performance of US Southerners

Compared to other negatively stereotyped groups, a paucity of research has examined stereotypes of US southerners. Building from past research and theory on the phenomenon of stereotype threat, the current research examined the possibility that activating negative stereotypes of people from the southern US can undermine their performance on intellectual tasks. In four studies, southern US colle...

Editorial: Discomfort

Visual discomfort and flicker.

Flickering lights can be uncomfortable to look at and can induce seizures in observers with photosensitive epilepsy. However, the temporal characteristics contributing to these effects are not fully known. In the spatial domain, one identified source of visual discomfort is when images have Fourier amplitude spectra that deviate from the natural (∼1/frequency, 1/f) statistical characteristics o...