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...approach, which uses time-lapse photography, will help show how nerve cells in the brain produce complex patterns of activity and may advance studies of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disease...

Author: By Katherine G. Chan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Method To Track Neurons | 2/2/2005 | See Source »

While reading your report on happiness, I felt a touch of sorrow that science seems to be nosing its way into every aspect of humanity. Can't we go back to the days when people lived passionately without wondering what chemicals in the brain made them happy? Since when has happiness been a technical thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 2005 | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...eating fish good for your brain? That may depend on how the fish is prepared. According to a 12-year study of nearly 5,000 men and women over the age of 65, eating five or more servings each month of tuna or other baked or broiled fish decreases the risk of stroke 28%. But those protective benefits disappeared when the fish was fried. Eating at least one serving of fried fish or a fish burger each week led to a 37% increase in stroke risk, which grew with each additional serving. Frying seems to alter the ratio of good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Broil (Don't Fry) the Tuna, Feed the Brain | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...Anyone who watched Carson, studied him, as we all did, for decades, saw two things: the Univac brain, riffling through the comic possibilities as he listened to his guest, and an instant later ejected the perfect bon mot; and his distance from the action, as if he were watching the show and himself from some Olympian aerie, where it was always cool. Tynan writes of Carson appraising the other guests at a party, "his eyes twinkling like icicles." It was what we know, from Carson's avatar Letterman, as Midwestern cool: ingratiating but withholding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whoooooooo's Johnny? | 1/25/2005 | See Source »

When Method Man, whose experiences with Crimson-tinted hypocrisy were well-chronicled in 2001’s How High, was prompted to scream for ice cream on Raekwon the Chef’s stunning solo debut seven years earlier, did he bounce to Brain Break? Of course not. The Shaolin soldier wasted no time before warning the world’s cool confectioners that “French vanilla, butter pecan, chocolate deluxe—even caramel sundaes—is getting touched and scooped in my ice cream trucks,” and the world is a better place...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Cold Comfort | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

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