Word: fasters
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...just fun. In the music business, people make one album every two to three years. But in the 60s and 70s, people were making things much faster - two or three albums a year. I wanted to try that. I had an album that was anticipated, and I knew that if something got released people would think it was that. We wrote, recorded, mixed, and mastered a bunch of songs within about 48 hours and then shipped it on the Internet and people thought it was the album. Everyone's like, "Oh, this is the new album, we got it." Then...
...thinned out at a rate of about 0.7% a year, tapering off in the early 20s. At the same time, the brain's white matter thickens. The white matter is composed of fatty myelin sheaths that encase axons and, like insulation on a wire, make nerve-signal transmissions faster and more efficient. With each passing year (maybe even up to age 40) myelin sheaths thicken, much like tree rings. During adolescence, says Giedd, summing up the process, "you get fewer but faster connections in the brain." The brain becomes a more efficient machine, but there is a trade...
...were very solid. Everyone did the job that was asked of them,” Caples said. “Can we execute it better? Absolutely. They are the best team we have played so far, so the pace is higher, the speed of execution is a lot faster. We made some mistakes and they capitalized, but they made us a better team...
...reluctant to show their hands in an economy that can turn from forgiving to punishing overnight. On balance, McCain would be a lower-tax, lower-spending President who would agree to stiff regulation when necessary. Obama would be quicker to spend, quicker to regulate but also probably faster to react to economic weakness at home. The choice might be as much about reflexes as about ideology...
...presidential campaign hurtling into its final weeks and a financial crisis that is gathering steam at an even faster clip have collided headlong, bringing a virtual halt to one world, and both confusion and the promise of catharsis to the other...