Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sparseness is out the window, and with it the cuteness and understatement. Every song now attempts universality of topic, and is cluttered with synthesizer of horns to the point of giving a headache. "Too much information in my brain," complains one song. "One world is enough for all of us," declares another (as opposed to three, get it?). The problem is that these two sentiments (neither very profound) are practically contradictory. In trying to make a record encompassing the whole world, the Police show how their knowledge and talent can get muddled by self-consciousness...
...Sometimes I think we are more explorers of an unknown continent that we are physicians or scientists," Torsten N. Wiesel, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, says quietly. That continent is the brain, and the 22 years of research Wiesel calls only the "first steps" in its exploration have won him and colleague David H. Hubel, Berry Professor of Neurobiology, the 1981 Nobel Prize for Medicine...
...instead of mearly declaring love, the power chords represent the "Little man" always in his head, paranoia. The title song applauds humanity's affection for seeing sex and violence: "We all sit glued while the killer takes aim...hey ma, there goes a piece of the president's brain!" And the slow tunes continue Davies catalogue of kooks--"Art Lover" is a man who loves to watch little girls in the park, and "Killer's Eyes" asks the musical question, what's it like to live in hell every day? All of which is to say, the Kinks are alive...
...Hubel and Wiesel's knowledge of the way the brain processes information from the eye advances the study of the full cortex--10 billion neurons folded together at the brain's crust that may be the key to man's development over other animals...
Skull volume and brain weight provided much of the data for intelligence determining scientists in the 1800s. Samuel George Morton, who died in 1851 having collected more than 1000 skulls, tried to prove that a ranking of races could be established objectively by head size. By measuring the volume, which he assumed was directly correlated to intelligence, he hoped to show that Caucasian naturally should be the brightest of all races. He succeeded in his era; however, as Gould clearly demonstrates, Morton used his preconceived notions about race like any high school lab student, using only the data that fitted...