Word: braine
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...center of the debate is a medical procedure in which a doctor partly delivers a late-term fetus and then uses a suction device to extract brain tissue before removing the rest of the body. Advocates on either side dispute why these abortions are performed and how many are done each year. Even doctors cannot agree: the American Medical Association supports a ban, while the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists opposes...
...love. Don't think of them as "detachable, snap-in components," he cautions. They're not visible to the naked eye "like the rump steak on the supermarket cow display." A mental module, he says, "probably looks more like roadkill, sprawling messily over the bulges and crevasses of the brain...
Sweeping pronouncements like that will strike many scientists who study the brain as puzzling, if not downright ludicrous. Neurobiologists, in particular, will find much to quibble with in How the Mind Works--which is not surprising, since Pinker comes at the subject from an entirely different perspective. The son of a traveling salesman, Pinker grew up in Montreal and attended McGill University, where he became fascinated with the psychology of perception and cognition. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard, then moved a few blocks down Massachusetts Avenue to M.I.T., linguist Chomsky's home base. Chomsky's seminal theory--that humans...
...first glance, The Placebo Effect bears a daunting resemblance to a hardcover sourcebook for a cognitive neuroscience course, with its nine MLA-referenced essays and smattering of graphs. Based upon materials presented at a three-day conference that was sponsored at Harvard in 1994 by the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative, the collection would certainly function well as a supplement to the coursework of any History of Science concentrator. For students of the humanities, Harrington delivers just enough of the promised interdisciplinary exploration to illuminate the placebo mystery without drowning the reader in technical terminology...