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...some estimates, no more than 1 person in 350,000 believes he or she was born the wrong gender. Moreover, the portion of the brain that seems to be different in transsexuals is smaller than a pinhead. Even advanced imaging techniques, like the pet scan or mri, cannot detect such tiny variations. To do their research, the Dutch team, led by Dr. Dick Swaab, had to dissect the brains of transsexuals in autopsies and examine them under a microscope. Little wonder, then, that it took Swaab's team 11 years to find transsexual candidates, persuade them to donate their brains...
Rather than try to detect one neutrino at a time, Reines and Cowan used a nuclear reactor that spewed out trillions of neutrinos every second. With so many particles, they reasoned, observed over a long enough period of time (it ended up being years), they should be able to measure at least a few neutrino impacts in their detector, a tank of chemical-tinged water...
Palimpsest is enjoyable as a kind of highbrow gossip column (the famous names could be in boldface), but it lacks the analytical substance that one has come to expect from its author. In a lovely passage, Vidal says he learned from his grandfather ''the ability to detect the false notes in those arias that our shepherds lull their sheep with"--and in fact his story sparkles when he deftly exposes the hypocrisies of Hollywood and Washington. As a writer he is at his best as an uncompromising critic, and at one point turns his sensibility on himself with sharp-eyed...
...high-level board said. "A large, structured attack with strategic intent against the U.S. could be prepared and exercised under the guise of unstructured 'hacker' activities." The U.S., it added, might not even know it is under attack. "There is no nationally coordinated capability to counter or even detect a structured threat." Such a strike could "cripple U.S. operational readiness and military effectiveness" by delaying troop deployments and misrouting cargo planes, trains and ships...
Bats' built-in echolocation system is so finely tuned that it can detect insects' footsteps, changes in air currents caused by vibrating insect wings, even the ripple in a pond as a minnow's fin breaks the surface...