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...Easy Problem, then, is to distinguish conscious from unconscious mental computation, identify its correlates in the brain and explain why it evolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Mystery of Consciousness | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...theft. And China's trade surplus, which rocketed to $177.5 billion in 2006 and has risen from less than 2% of its total economy to around 7% in five years-surely Beijing has something to do with that. But instead of substance, the Americans got a soliloquy-which may explain why, during Wu's speech, some of the U.S. delegates looked bored, fidgety or downright annoyed. One delegation member later joked that Wu reminded him of his "fifth-grade teacher," adding, "I didn't much like fifth grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bridge over Troubled Water | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...mapped out the shapes of stars and galaxies; in Santa Cruz, Calif. A winner of such honors as the British Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal--almost never bestowed on an American--he determined that the Milky Way is shaped like a spiral and unearthed the processes that explain how the sun keeps its shape and size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 29, 2007 | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...theory behind D-cycloserine's action is totally consistent with old-fashioned talk therapy, and especially with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), currently the most effective nondrug technique dealing with phobias, PTSD and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The idea behind CBT--which first appeared in the 1950s, long before neuroscience could explain such things--is that the patient examines upsetting ideas and consciously assigns new, more positive associations to them. Even old-fashioned Freudian psychotherapy might fit in with this model. By dredging up forgotten memories, it may achieve the same thing, albeit in a much less efficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Flavor Of Memories | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...would be BAWLS.Check that, I’m going to use two: BAWLS-nasty. You think I can’t use two words? I didn’t. That was one word. Hyphenated.For the layman who knows not what this sweet elixir of life to be, let me explain. Let me explain real quick for you.Imagine a dragon. Now, what if the dragon was the world. But the world is a dragon.That’s BAWLS.I drink a BAWLS to get crazy; I drink it to take a nap.I drink a BAWLS for glory; I drink it when...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bawls to the Wawl | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

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