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...dozen other institutions, most scientists believed the brain was largely a finished product by the time a child reached the age of 12. Not only is it full-grown in size, Giedd explains, but "in a lot of psychological literature, traced back to [Swiss psychologist Jean] Piaget, the highest rung in the ladder of cognitive development was about age 12 - formal operations." In the past, children entered initiation rites and started learning trades at about the onset of puberty. Some theorists concluded from this that the idea of adolescence was an artificial construct, a phenomenon invented in the post-Industrial...
What Giedd's long-term studies have documented is that there is a second wave of proliferation and pruning that occurs later in childhood and that the final, critical part of this second wave, affecting some of our highest mental functions, occurs in the late teens. Unlike the prenatal changes, this neural waxing and waning alters not the number of nerve cells but the number of connections, or synapses, between them. When a child is between the ages of 6 and 12, the neurons grow bushier, each making dozens of connections to other neurons and creating new pathways for nerve...
Obscene Directed by Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor; not rated; in limited release For publishing many of the past century's landmark works, including Howl, Naked Lunch, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, Barney Rosset's Grove Press earned the U.S. government's highest tribute: prosecution for obscenity. This zippy documentary distills all the zest and pain of Rosset's career. Like the man and his imprint, it's sensational...
...Washington Immigration Slowdown New U.S. Census data reveal that while the U.S. foreign-born population--at 12.6%--is at its highest share since 1920, the influx has slowed sharply with the economy. The number of new immigrants declined from more than 1.8 million in 2006 to about 512,000 in 2007. On top of a changing job market, experts cite a crackdown on undocumented workers...
...Michael Dougherty said. Doughtery is the top returning passer in the Ivy League. He leads the offensive threat against the Crimson. It will be up to Harvard’s cornerbacks to pressure the speedy Brown receiver Buddy Farnham, who led the Ivy League Conference last year with the highest number of receptions with an average of 7.80 a game. Farnham is not the only receiver that the Crimson has to worry about. Junior receiver Bobby Sewall, who was second in Ivy League receptions only to Farnham, must also be shut down. Harvard needs to force turnovers...