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...look pretty arbitrary. For another, science has no agreed-upon definition of "intelligence" either - let alone an agreed-upon method to test it. All kinds of cultural biases have been identified in IQ tests, for example. If there is something fundamental in our brains that regulates our capacity to learn, we have yet to separate its effects from the effects of everything that we experience after we're born...
...body, insulin helps convert food into cellular energy. But the brain has other uses for insulin, namely as a means to learn and make new memories. Here's how it works: At synapses, the spaces across which brain cells communicate and where memories are conceived, neurons reserve special parking spots just for insulin. When the hormone pulls in, a connection is made that enables new memories to form. Since new memory formation is one of the first things to go awry in people with early stages of the disease, this insulin-initiated process may hold the key to decoding...
...Dunea decided to ask 50 of the world's top chefs what they'd do for their last meal, and then shot them in a way that summed up their choice for her new book, My Last Supper (Bloomsbury USA). It turns out there's a lot you can learn about people by the last thing they want to eat, and about our food-obsessed culture when the people are culinary pacesetters like these...
...arrogance or Scott McClellan's anxiety. Many of her predecessors came from the antagonistic world of national campaigns, but Perino made her way to the West Wing through a succession of jobs in Congress and the Executive Branch, where life exists beyond the next election and reporters and spokespeople learn to live with--and even respect--the requirements of one another's jobs...
...Socks: necessary for loafer wearing? If not, +3 7) If you wear loafers, sans socks, while skateboarding to class...please, don’t breed. Also, +11 8) Do you keep missing the shuttle because you wear stilettos every day, but have never managed to learn to walk in them? +3 9) Are you unable to resist flaunting your extraordinary night vision by wearing your Ray-Bans inside? +6 10) Do you still wear multiple polo shirts at a time, all collars popped? Because that’s just sad. +0 Scoring Guide: 0-5: Congratulations! Your few sartorial quirks...