Word: brained
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...other half is the games themselves. "We created a task force internally at Nintendo," Iwata says, "whose objective was to come up with games that would attract people who don't play games." Last year they set out to design a game for the elderly. Amazingly, they succeeded. Brain Age is a set of electronic puzzles (including Sudoku) that purports to keep aging minds nimble. It was released for one of Nintendo's portable platforms, the Nintendo DS, last year. So far, it has sold 2 million copies, many of them to people who had never bought a game before...
...really awful.” Durang also provided insight into his personal writing style and gave aspiring writers in the audience a tip.“An awful lot of writing is intuitive. In the rewriting process, you can use the more intelligent part of your brain.” But the Art First celebration was not limited to professional artists. With help from Jack Megan, director of the OFA, as well as the construction company itself, residents of Mather, Dunster, and Leverett House united to paint the gray wall seperating Cowperthwaite St. from the construction zone across the street...
...fame long enough to know how to work it into this otherwise impersonal epic. Here Ethan is engaged (to Michelle Monaghan, who has strong Katie Holmes vibes) and takes his domestic life as passionately and seriously as his career. He has had a painful microbomb implanted in his brain--that explains a lot about the star's shenanigans this past year. And at the end, his team jumps up and down in evocation of Cruise's stunt on Oprah. Is celebrity a mask we love to see the star pull off, grinning at his own foibles? Ponder and deplore...
...melatonin supplements really help peoplesleep? Millions of jet-lagged and sleep-deprived Americans--citing countless self-help articles--insist they do. But the scientific evidence has been slim. There's no question that the hormone helps the brain tell a.m. from p.m.--regulating sleep cycles and circadian timing--when it is produced naturally by the body at night. What was lacking was clear evidence that taking melatonin in supplement form had the same sleep-inducing effect...
...longer than the placebo group, but only in periods of sleep that occurred during the volunteers' biological day--that is, when their bodies were not producing natural melatonin. During the sleep cycles that happened to fall at night in real time, when melatonin is already being released by the brain, taking an extra dose of the hormone worked no better than taking a placebo. "It seems that what melatonin is doing," says Wyatt, "is knocking out the wake-promoting drive, which normally happens during the day, from your circadian clock...