Word: braining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DFMC was started by a Harvard first-yearwho was trying to find a way to remember his goodfriend Seth Feldman, who died of brain cancer...
Beside the hoop-la about Hauser getting tenure (big deal!!) the big stink is about the lecture he gave this Monday. Professor Hauser talked about the minimal effects of marijuana on the brain. He cited an experiment where a spider was given marijuana and the results were such that the spider missed a loop in its web. Bad Boy Hauser concluded, "whatever!" A little later on, Hauser told the crowd of his familiarity with the erotic product store Hubba Hubba. This professional suspects that once a man gets tenure, there's no telling what will happen. Dr. Know suggests Professor...
Schacter, whose work examines memory and the brain, said he was excited about the fellowship because it "allows me further time on my sabbatical to do what I want to do." Schacter intends to use the fellowship to finish writing a book on the issue of money distortion in the brain...
...next year, he became a member of theinterdisciplinary faculty of the Mind, Brain andBehavior (MBB) program...
...close up at a Velasquez you see a flurry of gray-and-pink spots and streaks, and when you move back a couple of feet, that same patch has become a glistening silver embroidery on rose velvet. All of Close's art recalls his fixation on this effect, the brain seeking illusion in pattern, questing for clues: Close will break a face down into round dabs of oil paint (as in Self-Portrait, 1986), or spots of pastel, or even thickly textured platelets of papier-mache glued on top of one another, looking to extend the ways in which repetitive...