Word: brained
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...accident in 1972. At least that is the impression you get from listening to Barack Obama and other Democrats as they tout Obama's choice for Vice President. By the same standard, Biden's second most important qualification appears to be that in 1988 he suffered two life-threatening brain aneurysms...
...that really irked Ben Newell, a researcher himself at the University of New South Wales in Australia. That paper suggested that people might be better off relying on unconscious deliberation to make complex decisions - despite an abundance of scientific evidence to the contrary - given that the human brain can reasonably only focus on a few things at a time. Once people have all the necessary information to make a decision, the paper found, too much conscious deliberation could lead to unnecessary attention given to extraneous factors...
...close friend of Barack and Michelle Obama's for nearly two decades, former Chicago Transit Board chief Valerie Jarrett has been called "the other side of Barack's brain...
...Studying many diseases, especially degenerative diseases, often entails isolating cells that are not readily accessible, such as brain cells. But by deriving patient-specific iPS cells with the new technology, Hochedlinger said, researchers will be able to study the development of the disease in a lab dish...
...authenticity. "Occasionally, I go, 'Oh, there's a kind of joke I don't do anymore.' I used to not care if a joke could be misinterpreted. Now I do care if a joke can be misunderstood," he says. "But that doesn't take up a lot of brain space to figure that out." He won't, for instance, appear on Saturday Night Live this season. "We have to do everything so people understand that this is a real campaign and not just a conceptual-art piece," he says...