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What's creating the most excitement is a project called the International Consortium for Brain Mapping, a 12-year collaborative effort to create an atlas of the human brain, based on scans of 7,000 brains from three continents. Coordinated by John Mazziotta, who runs the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA, the brain atlas is due to be released online next year. Data are being stored and analyzed on a supercomputer at UCLA with 1 petabyte of capacity--equivalent to a book with 250 billion pages. "They are laying the groundwork for all other brain studies to come...
...immediate benefit would be at the clinical level. The atlas would give researchers and physicians around the world access to virtual maps of how the brain functions, to compare with data they obtain from scans of their subjects or patients. By the end of next year, they should be able to project local scans free of charge into the online atlas via a computer technique called "warping." That will immediately show if some part of the brain appears to be working abnormally, compared with norms established by the scans of the 7,000 "healthy" brains. "We can do very tight...
...posture pictures” to all the Ivy League colleges. Sheldon believed that physical characteristics could reveal facts about a person’s intelligence, temperament, integrity, and future achievement. Some Harvard posture pictures ended up in Sheldon’s book on body types, “Atlas of Men.” Now written off as a pseudoscience, Sheldon’s views used to be endorsed by many university officials, who offered up the literal student body for examination. Radcliffe, too, took these risque photos from 1931 until 1961, when the Harvard and Radcliffe health services merged...
Even Central bankers charged with steering the global economy are permitted their pastimes. Greenspan loves to roam well beyond the facts for intellectual stimulation. He was deeply influenced by Rand's classic Atlas Shrugged, which helped shape his view that individuals acting in self-interest make for fair and honest markets. Although Bernanke wrote an unpublished novel in his younger days, his reading list swings to the pragmatic. He spent a recent vacation with a book about astronomy and has read volumes about Milton Friedman, whom he regards as the 20th century's greatest economist for his arguments...
...course is disappointingly pointless for first-year students, it is an insult to anyone else. By the time they are sophomores or juniors, students have had the chance to savor much more sophisticated courses. Atlas says, “History 10a remains one of the most disappointing classes I have taken at Harvard. I enrolled hoping for an opportunity to understand the historical foundation of the modern periods that I study, but instead found a disorganized course that watered down 2,000 years of the past into an unrecognizable mess.” Most upperclassmen also perceive that the ideals...