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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gut Decisions May Not Be Smart | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At HQ | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Create Disease-Specific Cell Lines | 8/18/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not So Funny | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

...argument can be made that Warren's career has always been a California freeway, navigated at full speed with panache. But there is bound to come a moment when even a man with a racing brain can't keep up with all his options and must define himself more closely in order to do things right. Inevitably, that point will follow a great new opportunity, like the presidential forum and the possibilities it embodies. I ask Warren what Bible verse he will take into the forum, and he quotes David's words after God has secured his position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Ambition of Rick Warren | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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