Word: birdbrain
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...early 1960s biologists discovered that new cells were being made in two areas of the adult rat brain, but the discovery was regarded as an unimportant peculiarity of the rodent brain and quickly forgotten. In the mid-1980s, Fernando Nottebohm of Rockefeller University brought new respect to the term birdbrain by demonstrating that the brain of an adult canary has the astonishing ability to regenerate new nerve cells at a rate of up to 20,000 a day. Other researchers reported similar regenerative ability in fish and reptiles, but there was still no evidence that evolution had passed on this...
...intrigued by Lewinsky's keeping the stained dress. Why? Was she planning to frame it? Or send it to be auctioned at Sotheby's? This girl is weird. But even weirder is Clinton's ever getting involved with such a birdbrain. GENE C. GERZSO Mexico City...
Next time, think twice before calling someone a "birdbrain." A new study published in the journal Nature Thursday suggests our feathered friends are a lot smarter than we thought -- at least when it comes to remembering where they put that nice, juicy bug. Behavioral scientists studying scrub jays said that the birds displayed what is known as episodic, or event-based, memory. The jays were able to remember which side of a tray their larva was buried on, and how long ago they put it there; if the larva was past its sell-by date, the birds didn't even...
...band started the set with "Birdbrain," the title track from their 1989 album, with Janovitz wrenching out his tormented vocals as the rhythm section gnashed beneath him. He doesn't always hit the note right, and often there's more noise coming out of him that song. But this isn't k.d. lang--he's supposed to be in agony, and his imperfect, sincere singing makes the band seem like they rehearse in your neighbor's basement...
...entropy is contagious. After a while Orlando is confessing his own slavish wish for a nesting birdbrain to take over: "I experience this vacuum just a few inches above my head. This empty space of unknowing...