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...their study, researchers focused on three epilepsy patients undergoing the rare procedure Intra-Cranial Electrophysiology, in which electrodes are implanted into the brain to gauge which regions are responsible for causing epileptic seizures...
...Police followed, harassed and in a few cases beat the volunteers. Tan was arrested on March 28. While I was in Sichuan to speak at his trial, police stormed my hotel room in the middle of the night, punched me and detained several of us. (I had to undergo cranial surgery in Munich for my head injuries.) The clear intent was to ensure that none of Tan's supporters could witness his prosecution...
...from the start. The extinct bear-dog - a family of animals that died out 9 million years ago and were, as their name suggests, related to both bears and dogs - actually became more pea-brained over time. Common dogs, like humans, have enjoyed a comparatively recent expansion of cranial capacity...
...none of this suggests that within a species - Homo sapiens, say - brain size tells you a lick about intellect. Across the centuries, eugenicists and practitioners of other junk sciences argued that cranial volume could reveal important things about the intelligence or other traits of one race compared with another. That was rubbish. The new carnivore studies, by contrast, offer a tantalizing window into the things that help an entire species evolve the way it does - or, more important, the things that...
...digs at Abusir for the past three years, told reporters that she wants "to be Cleopatra's lawyer," and prove there is much more to the ancient potentate than the work of two thousands years of Western male imagination. Debates still rage over everything from Cleopatra's identity - cranial scans of her half-sister's skull this year suggested she may be African, though her known lineage was Greek - to her looks. Close scrutiny of coin portraits have led some to believe that she was rather plain, a conclusion borne out by the Roman historian Plutarch who wrote "her beauty...