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...Tell him Harvard girls love a guy with big brains, but not as much as they love a guy who is literally a walking brain. Then introduce him to your roommate, The Brain...
...studied the 747's safety diagram. He looked for the closest exit, and he pointed it out to his wife. He had been in a theater fire as a boy, and ever since, he always checked for the exits in an unfamiliar environment. When the planes collided, Heck's brain had the data it needed. He could work on automatic, whereas other people's brains plodded through the storm of new information. "Humans behave much more appropriately when they know what to expect--as do rats," says Cynthia Corbett, a human-factors specialist with the Federal Aviation Administration...
...suspected eating disorder many years ago may have led to the permanent brain damage that landed Schiavo in the middle of a national debate. When the dust settles, I hope politicians and the media will turn their attention to the potentially fatal effects of eating disorders. Mark Reese Draper, Utah...
...hard to speak for the team, but I think we need to improve on our close race brain control,” sophomore five-seat Carrie Williams said. “We haven’t had a race that close yet. I mean, it was a great race—if my hands hadn’t been on that oar, I would have been biting my nails it was so good. Sitting next to an eight-oared screaming thrashing machine for six minutes—it was a nail-biter, and a little nerve racking...
...chapter on coping with stress, I talk about how new mothers tend to make extraordinary kinds of friendships, based on their deep need for other people. I found this to be true in my own life and only later read how great it is for your brain to make and keep strong social connections. It's also probably good for your children. One study on baboons in the wild found that the more social the mothers were, the better their babies' chance of survival...