Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cerebral palsy is caused by certain unexplained variations in brain structure, or by a breakdown in the brain motor centers from an injury before or during birth. Having no control over certain muscles, severe cases are often unable to perform such simple functions as speaking, walking, or feeding themselves. Cerebral palsy cannot be cured. The best that can be done is to train other parts of the brain to take over the duties normally performed by the injured or missing section...
...compound's molecule is important in determining what it smells like. The nose, he thinks, contains "receptors" which are designed to respond to molecules of certain shapes. When one of these comes along, the receptor recognizes it by its shape, and sends a nerve message which the brain interprets as an odor...
...week's production accepted, indeed courted, Richard as melodrama. Everything was painted in bold primary colors; a good deal was literally bathed in baleful crimson light. But the thing had pace and a certain crude excitement, and Richard Whorf's usurper, limping of foot and swift of brain, was enjoyably malign. There was nothing subtle about any of it, and toward the end there was much that was strident; but if never anything more, it was a pretty good show...
Take a well-bred young English lady named Armorel Cepinnier and bind her in matrimony to Gian ("Toughie") Ardree, an Italian-born bricklayer with quick fists and a slow brain, and you can have a nice stew of social and psychological problems. Set the uplift-minded Armorel and the hairy-chested Toughie to living in one of the meanest streets of one of London's slums, and the stew is likely to become too thick to stir...
Like a Flatworm. Calculating machines have been getting better and more complicated, Professor McCulloch told the engineers, but they have a long way to go before they rival the brain. A big calculator with 10,000 vacuum tubes may be a useful machine, but it has no more "intelligence" than a primitive flatworm with about that number of nerve cells. Lecturer McCulloch frankly admits that he cannot explain, in terms of electrical engineering, the brain's creative powers...