Word: braining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change is good. The bottom line is that even if you don't have the time of your life, it can't hurt to reorganize the brain away from the input and opinions of all those you care about or don't. Masses of things become infinitely less important, a couple of choice people, activities, ideas become all that more meaningful. So it surely can't hurt to be just with you. So if you didn't get a chance this summer yet, grab a couple weeks for yourself or plan ahead for next year and do some...
Beefcake asked about my major. How could I say Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations? Not only was the name a mouthful he'd never get his mouth around, but I'd also out myself as a brain. That would mean the end of the conversation...
Professor Patrick Cavanagh says "V8," the moniker a team of which he was part coined for an area of the brain they identified, sounds like an appropriate name for a "juice or a motor or something...
...following a system of nomenclature in which areas of the brain responsible for vision are named V1, V2, V3 and so forth in order of their discovery, the researchers were obliged to name the new area of the visual system they identified after the tomato-based juice...
Cavanagh was one member of a team headed by Nouchine Hadjikhani, a research fellow at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital, that pinpointed the function of the new brain region, which they believe to be responsible for color vision. Their results were published in the July edition of Nature Neuroscience...