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A VALENTINE TREAT FROM ELIZABETH SOMER
Did you know that your BRAIN is your body’s LARGEST SEX ORGAN? And did you know that when it comes [ … ]
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WINDOW BUILT IN LIVE MOUSE BRAIN
Alyssa Danigelis writes in news.discovery.com about a group if scientists for the first time ever seeing through a window into [ … ]
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THE ‘POWER PARADOX’ OF CLEAN ENERGY
In “Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever” (newscientist.com, Jan 30, 2012), Anil Ananthaswamy and Michael Le Page write [ … ]
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SWEDISH TO HOST DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION SURGERY LIVE STREAM ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2011
Two doctors from the Swedish Neuroscience Institute will host an online live stream to give viewers a rare, behind-the-scenes look [ … ]
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The Science of Sin: The Psychology of Seven Deadlies (and Why They Are So Good for You)
by Simon M. Laham, PhD (Three Rivers Press, 2012) Since early Christian times, the seven deadly sins have been decried [ … ]
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FUTURE BABBLE: WHY PUNDITS ARE HEDGEHOGS AND FOXES KNOW BEST
by Dan Gardner The world will end in 2012. Or will it? Prognostication is a rife, global passion and pundits [ … ]
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BRAIN EDUCATION IN GERMANY
Children learn to restore brain function and connect to the whole body within. by Margaret Emory Located in Germany’s bustling [ … ]
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AMERICA’S HEALTH HABITS
America’s Brain Health Index, a state-by-state measure of the nation’s brain health, evaluated the 50 US states and the District [ … ]
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The Brain and the World, the Mind and the Body
Brain Education for a better world
The United Nations General Assembly meets once a year, gathering 193 states to put their heads together to solve the [ … ]
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Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?
Lining up the research
Consider the following mishmash of city creatures interacting in their urban habitat: An elderly woman lifts her reading glasses, squinting [ … ]
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THE BLUE BRAIN PROJECT
This image shows the three-dimensional configuration of 10,000 simulated neurons that constitute a single neocortical column-an anatomical unit barely wider [ … ]
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DECREASING RF EXPOSURE
Even though the evidence for a link between cell phone radiation and brain tumors is not incredibly strong, it might [ … ]
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NOVARTIS ABANDONS DRUG RESEARCH FOR GENETICS
Reported on Nature.com is news that the big pharmaceutical company Novartis is closing its neuroscience facility in Basel, Switzerland where [ … ]
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EINSTEIN’S BRAIN ON EXHIBIT IN PHILLY
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, founded in 1787, is the oldest professional medical organization in the country. Back in [ … ]
