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...that different kinds of thoughts can be tied to different patterns of activity in the brain. A sidebar to my article "The Mysteries of Consciousness" [Jan. 29] showed colorful brain scans that revealed different hot spots when people saw a face and a place - and the same brain areas lit up when the people merely thought about faces and places. Unfortunately, my former colleagues who performed this study, Kathleen O'Craven of the University of Toronto and Nancy Kanwisher of M.I.T., were not credited. Steven Pinker Professor of Psychology Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
...really elastic," says Downing. "We just ask for it at different times." He points out that with the DST extension, Americans living in Grand Rapids, Mich., and farther west in their time zones won't see a sunrise in November until 8:30 a.m. - which means a lit-up house an hour or so longer in the morning, when most families wake...
Polemics are the last thing Journey's End is interested in. The officers holed up in this dimly lit den on the eve of a major German offensive in March 1918 don't question the war or even talk much about it. They don't make speeches about lost comrades or pine for sweethearts back home whom they may never see again. They just eat and sleep, relieve one another on guard duty and complain about the meat cutlets. They do their duty, simply because there's nothing else...
...thoughts can be tied to different patterns of activity in the brain. A sidebar to my article "The Mysteries of Consciousness" [Jan. 29] showed colorful brain scans that revealed different hot spots when people saw a face and when they saw a place--and the same brain areas lit up when the people merely thought about faces and places. Unfortunately, my former colleagues who performed this important study, Kathleen O'Craven of the University of Toronto and Nancy Kanwisher of M.I.T., were not credited...
...officers where the odor was reportedly coming from. Officers report there was no odor of class D coming from that area. 11:25 p.m.— Caller reported smoke coming from a trash can at Leverett House Towers. Guard arrived and reported that the smoke was from a lit cigarette and they extinguished it themselves. —Jamison A. Hill