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...Brain Garcia should have a huge year,” says defensive line coach Eric Westerfield. “I’m looking forward to seeing him progress...
They’ve got brain, but do they have game? FM brought together students with records of success in quiz shows and spelling and geography bees and pitted them against each other in a less academic endeavor: arm-wrestling. The winner of two out of three rounds takes the match. Let’s get ready to rumble...
...better known in its medical diagnostic form as MRI). It works by bathing a lab sample or a human body with electromagnetic energy and carefully measuring how the atoms and molecules respond. It?s not all that difficult when you?re looking for something big - a tumor inside the brain, for example...
...human brain in its early years is to make sense of mathematical principles from objects found in the natural world," says Jane M. Healy, an educational psychologist and author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Mind--and What We Can Do About It. This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms. As kids approach adolescence, however, they may be ready for slightly more abstract methods of learning, and computers may offer just...
ECSTASY SHAKES Experimenting with ecstasy may not be as risk-free as some users believe. A new study says popping two or three pills in one night can cause enough damage to dopamine neurons in the brain to lead to parkinsonism--a condition similar to Parkinson's disease that is characterized by tremors, sluggishness and balance problems. Scientists at Johns Hopkins arrived at this conclusion by studying the effects of high doses of ecstasy on squirrel monkeys and baboons, but believe the results may apply to humans as well. --BY SORA SONG...