Word: braine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course each building's benefactors will maintain that their actions are purely altruistic--this is despite the fact that those of us not brain-dead know that the donations would be anonymous if this were true. These contributions are offered by a rich person in a feeble effort to combat mortality--to find security in the knowledge that for hundreds of years people will remember him, Ichabod T. Shmuck, every time they write a return address from "Ichabod T. Shmuck Hall...
Movies and colorful maps, exhibits and concrete experiments, are like CPR for the senses. Without them, nothing one does with the eyes and hands involves the brain. Education should bring the physical and the mental together. Otherwise the physical becomes something separate, sensory but senseless. We all recognize the dangers mindless physicality: body worship, the descent from the erotic to the obscene. But the mind, separated from the body, also diminishes; intellectualism blurs into asceticism. The isolation of senses from thoughts is as dehumanizing in philosophy as in pornography...
...science help shrinking violets blossom? Well, not yet. But Stanford University researchers believe they have identified a chemical key to shyness. In a study of 16 men at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Center, they found that timid types have lower levels of the brain chemical dopamine than more extroverted individuals (as measured by standardized personality tests...
...understands exactly how or why the Fragile X mutation affects the brain. Autopsy studies by IBR Director Henry Wisniewski and his colleagues have shown that the number of connections, or synapses, between brain cells in autistic children with Fragile X syndrome is unusually low and the connections that do exist are not well developed. "In normal adults the connections are short and stubby," says Brown. "In Fragile X, they are longer and thinner, as in newborns. It's as if a stage of development hadn't been achieved. They haven't made the normal contacts between cells...
Unlike most mad scientists, however, Dewitt's object is not to conquer the world with zombies brought back from the grave, nor to steal the brain of a buxom virgin; no, Dewitt aims much higher than those petty goals. His intention is to fuse the breath of life into the lost casualties of Hollywood...