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...Tononi and a growing number of other scientists believe that sleep - not just in flies but also in higher-order mammals - may perform such a pressure-releasing role. During sleep, researchers theorize, the brain actively prunes the neural network laid out during waking hours, trimming away weaker connections that haven't been used in a while or weren't strong enough to begin with. The stronger connections are believed to be filed during sleep into long-term memory, where they can be accessed again and again as needed. All this nocturnal tidying creates room for new connections to be formed...
...While the medications currently prescribed are already much safer in the short term than the ones commonly used during the study period, their long-term effects on health are still unknown, since they simply haven't been circulating long enough for any damaging side effects to have surfaced. But, Ho notes, "I always felt the side effects of HIV are greater than the side effects of the drugs." After all, he says, "the side effect of unchecked HIV is death...
Daydreaming about Harvard in high school, you may have imagined wood-panel rooms lined with dozens of Gutenberg Bibles and the busts of ancient Greek philosophers—a haven where students would absorb knowledge from the mere scent of the ancient books surrounding them. Uhhhh...maybe not. Maybe you just smoked pot or played the sousaphone. But anyway, you'll grant FlyBy that studying at Harvard is not quite the stuff of dreams (especially in the early morning). That's where the House libraries come in. Many replicate a sense...
...arms, saving countless undergrads driven out by Lamont’s shrill 9:45 PM bell. On a Friday or Saturday night, they can simply walk to Adams. Although Adams is not the best place to study during a dining hall party, in most cases it provides an ideal haven for refugees from other Houses. So, thank you, Adams...
...hope your April Fool's went well. FlyBy, of course, was not fooled by anyone--many attempted, none succeeded (we will confirm our enviable stash of GOLD, but refrain from discussing how it's put to use). For all of you, we present (to those who haven't seen it), the famed College Humor Prank War, which finally updated recently with a new prank. How else to keep your brain alive in tonight's VOID? Share your April Fool's story in the comments! Help out a fellow VOIDer...you could be the difference between someone powering through or leaving...