Scientists at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark accidentally found evidence of the network when they were conducting migraine research and noticed that several regions of the brain activate when healthy people view warm and fuzzy Christmas-themed photos.
A recent series of psychology studies by Princeton professor Susan Fiske showed that women who present traditionally feminine traits (stay-at-home moms, for example) are viewed as warm, but not competent, and are treated dismissively.
Turkey once viewed its warm ties with Syria as its greatest foreign policy accomplishment, but relations have collapsed over the eight months of antigovernment protests there and a brutal crackdown that the United Nations says has killed more than 3,000 people.
Much of it comprised traditional talking points and railing against Hillary Clinton, while taking detours to mock "media elites" who viewed "global warming" as a problem.
The Laskers, often viewed as warm-up awards for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will be presented at a dinner in New York on 21 September.
By 2010, with 111 countries surveyed, Gallup determined that there was a substantial decrease since 2007-8 in the number of Americans and Europeans who viewed global warming as a serious threat.
That old, worn, and thoroughly discredited view warms the hearts of the packs of closet bigots who pine for the old days when racial and gender discrimination was the American norm and government did little to protect black and gay rights.
It's tempting to view global warming on, well, a global scale.
But its most striking tidbit, especially for anyone still viewing global warming as some unborn generation's problem, is the glimpse it provides of our possible immediate future.
However, polls have shown that this year — our hottest — the number of Australians who view global warming as a "serious and pressing problem" has risen for the first time since 2006.
