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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
...Cecelia Ahern, eldest daughter of Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern, is one of Europe's most successful chick-lit authors. Her debut novel P.S. I Love You became an international best seller when Ahern was only 23 years old. A movie version of the book, starring Oscar winners Hilary Swank and Kathy Bates, has been filmed and is due for release...
...parents, boarded the shuttle ready to rage. Unfortunately for them, their foul mouths were overheard by one student’s mom and her bevy of parent friends. Nothing says educated like the phrase “let’s get fuck-tarded”...A Hist & Lit senior scheduled a Signet date with her mother, in town visiting. Unfortunately, post-thesis revelry left doting daughter hard-up with a hangover, and bemused mom got stood up at lunch...Moving outside the realm of parent mishaps, anal Spee members had an internal e-mail thread that worried about...
...That’s when the interview requests rolled in—mainly from websites for soccer junkies, including ESPN.com’s popular Soccernet site. Message boards lit up with requests for more information about the unknown Ivy Leaguer. Soccer bloggers raised their eyebrows—“I can’t find too much fault with his game,” read one blog called Du Nord—and simultaneously downplayed Akpan’s performance against an unexceptional Caribbean team with a middling goalkeeper...
...level, these attempts at gentrifying consumption are a welcome change from the austere functionalism that pervades much of commercial America: stores resembling brightly lit warehouses, with identical aisles piled high with flimsy merchandise from Asia. Customers breeze through and pile things in their cavernous baskets. Shopping is stripped down to its essence: exchange...