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February 14, 2005

Love me; love my jokes

That sought-after trait in a mate -- "good sense of humour" -- is more complex than originally thought. In fact, men and women define it differently. Eric Bressler, a graduate student at McMaster University who is studying the role of humour in personal attraction, discovered in a survey of 150 students that to a woman, "sense of humour" means someone who makes her laugh; to a man, a sense of humour means someone who appreciates his jokes.

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February 14, 2005

First love ruins him for all others

Forget a box of chocolates and a dozen roses. When it comes to attracting a mate, the male sagebrush cricket brings a special nuptial gift to his partner. During copulation, these insect Romeos offer their Juliets a peculiar food gift: females chew off the ends of the males' fleshy hind wings and ingest fluid that is seeping from the wounds they inflict.

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February 14, 2005

Whidden Lectures presents Donna Haraway

Donna Haraway, a history professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz will deliver this week's Whidden Lectures at McMaster University. The first lecture, "We Have Never Been Human: Companion Species in Nature Cultures," takes place Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Ewart Angus Centre in Health Science Centre. It will examine how to think jointly through biology, poststructuralist philosophy and science studies. Haraway will flesh out what she means by "companion species in naturecultures" as a way to inhabit multi-species worlds without the pitched battles between modernist humanism and its posts.

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February 11, 2005

Philosophers and theologians gather at McMaster

Four accomplished scholars met recently at McMaster Divinity College for a student organized conference to discuss the current dialogue or lack thereof between philosophy and theology in Canada and around the world.

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February 11, 2005

Five inducted into Faculty of Health Sciences ‘Community of Distinction’

Three pioneers of McMaster University's medical school, a nursing leader and the first health sciences librarian, were inducted today into the Faculty of Health Sciences Community of Distinction in a ceremony that celebrated the Faculty's roots and founders. The photographs and biographies of the five are displayed in a gallery on a second floor wall in McMaster's Health Sciences Centre.

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