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Martin S. Bell ’03, a government concentrator in Winthrop House, was an associate sports chair of The Crimson...
...interplay between heredity and environment. The most striking example is Pavlovian conditioning. When Pavlov announced his famous experiment a century ago this year, he had apparently discovered how the brain could be changed to acquire new knowledge of the world--in the case of his dogs, knowledge that a bell foretold the arrival of food. But now we know how the brain changes: by the real-time expression of 17 genes, known as the CREB genes. They must be switched on and off to alter connections among nerve cells in the brain and thus lay down a new long-term...
...which is probably why their debut album, Fire, is so much fun. The first single, Danger! High Voltage, went to No. 2 in England earlier this year thanks to a Gloria Gaynoresque bass line, electric-current sound effects and lyrics like "Fire in the disco! Fire in the Taco Bell!" The track has a ferocious vocal cameo from a purported auto mechanic named John S. O'Leary, who everyone insists is not Jack White of the White Stripes. The same Jack White who insists that his drummer is his sister, not his ex-wife...
Mimi Beardsley rings a bell for all of us creaky White House journalists, but it is easy to forget one or more of the young nymphs. They were once described by an astounded British visitor as being like new tennis balls with the fuzz still on them...
...Staff writer Martin S. Bell can be reached at msbell@fas.harvard.edu...