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...Rich later realizes bears no resemblance to Kubrick. Rich tips off the New York Times to Conway’s schemes, but not before we are subjected to several more of them. In the penultimate and lengthiest deception, Conway convinces an almost pitiable lounge singer, Lee Pratt (Jim Davidson), that Kubrick’s connections will land him a spot on the Las Vegas show circuit. The Pratt scenes begin with an unnecessary musical number: Pratt swaggers down the stairs, belting a vapid tune from the balustrade. When the camera zooms in, it delivers the final nail in the coffin...
...working on baggage X-ray machines" recollections. Where the regular Oscars show clips from the nominated films, the SciTech awards show clips from labs, pictures of graphs and charts, rows of scientists bent diligently over their computers. "An award like this is a rare and beautiful thing," said Colin Davidson, honored for his work on 3D modeling. "An award like this to a geek is a rare and beautiful thing squared...
...Clarke touched the wall in 2:05.13, while Chang finished third. Junior Lindsay Hart added two more first-place finishes to her opening win in the relay, taking the 200 individual medley in 2:09.25 and the 200 backstroke in 2:04.89. Freshman Kay Foley and senior Jessica Davidson made it a Crimson sweep of the 200 IM while senior Kara O’Reilly finished second to Hart in the 200 backstroke. Junior Meaghan Colling led from the gun to win the 200 free in 1:55.67. Classmate Amanda Slaight claimed the 100 free in 54.13 while freshman Sophie...
With the help and encouragement of the Dalai Lama, Davidson recruited Buddhist monks to go to Madison and meditate inside his functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tube while he measured their brain activity during various mental states. For comparison, he used undergraduates who had had no experience with meditation but got a crash course in the basic techniques. During the generation of pure compassion, a standard Buddhist meditation technique, brain regions that keep track of what is self and what is other became quieter, the fMRI showed, as if the subjects--experienced meditators as well as novices--opened their minds...
...were generating feelings of compassion, activity in the left prefrontal swamped activity in the right prefrontal (associated with negative moods) to a degree never before seen from purely mental activity. By contrast, the undergraduate controls showed no such differences between the left and right prefrontal cortex. This suggests, says Davidson, that the positive state is a skill that can be trained...