In " Love at Goon Park, " a moving biography of psychologist Harry Harlow, Deborah Blum describes a scientific result that, half a century later, can make hair stand up on your arms : The babies opened and reopened the window again and again, for no other reward than to catch a glimpse of their mothers'wooden heads, sometimes until the graduate students performing the experiment dropped off to sleep.
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I do not think my fellow travelers and I will soon forget the choir loft and spiral staircase of ancient mesquite timbers at Mission San Ignacio de Caburica in the village of Caburica, or the penitents at Santa Maria in Magdalena lifting the heavy wooden head of the recumbent statue of San Xavier ( if a person is unable to lift the saint's head, he or she is deemed unrepentant ), or the seashell-shaped entryway to Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama, or the ghostly O'odham wall paintings of skeletons, animals, and Lucifer with a serpent's tail at San Diego Pitiquito, in the village of Pitiquito.
