Word: braine
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FISHING FOR BRAIN FOOD...
...couldn't not listen to music if Paul Allen was your partner. So Jimi Hendrix helped form [slipping into a monster-movie voice] "the Brain of Bill...
...Wind; $18.98 These spare, mostly acoustic songs about death, loss and life's rearview mirror make for a draining listen. But they're not a drag because Young knows exactly how an album this thematically grim-he wrote and recorded it between being diagnosed with and treated for a brain aneurysm-needs to sound. At his most frightened (Falling Off the Face of the Earth), there's an easy melody and notes of assurance from the impeccably played instruments. And when he contemplates all his choices (The Painter) and wonders if he has got lost, the voices that rise behind...
...recent study by Harvard instructor Dr. Sara W. Lazar, has shown that meditation can help to increase brain function, reduce the effects of aging on the brain, and improve concentration and memory. Lazar, whose primary appointment is at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), initiated the study as a response to claims that meditation improved brain function and reduced the effects of aging. According to Dr. Lazar, no previous work had been done to actually analyze the physiological effects of one’s thoughts. However, this study provided “some really strong physical evidence that there are some long...
Stephen Hamblett ’57, a former Kirkland House resident who joined The Providence Journal immediately after graduating the College and worked his way up to publisher of the newspaper, died Tuesday at Rhode Island Hospital. He was 71. The cause was a blood clot in the brain, Hamblett’s son told The Boston Globe. As the Journal’s publisher and chief executive for nearly 12 years, Hamblett oversaw the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage in 1994 of corruption and patronage in the Rhode Island state court system. A long-time friend...