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...questionnaire about their tendency to engage in behaviors such as driving without a license, having unprotected sex and using drugs. Then they had the kids undergo a relatively new kind of brain scan called diffusion tensor imaging, a type of magnetic resonance imaging that is used to look at dense tissues like white matter. After analyzing the scans, the authors found a strong correlation between how risky the students described their behavior to be and how sophisticated their white matter was. The more mature the look of the brain, the more risk-taking the teenager tended to report...
...change predictions a bit more like the weather report, in both accuracy and accessibility. Right now scientists' understanding of global warming is the opposite of the 6 p.m. forecast. While climatologists have a better and better picture of what will happen to the entire climate the further out they look, the same predictions get fuzzy over the near term, or regionally instead of globally. That can be remedied in part by spending more on climate science and building the kind of models that can drill down below the global level to the regional or even the municipal, giving the governor...
...bring the discussion to a higher, more constructive level. City Councilor Craig A. Kelley said that the panel would have to delicately examine the racial and class undertones of the arrest. “When it’s all done...I don’t want people to look at it and say it was a waste of money, a whitewashing,” Kelley said. “We want people to say we had a thorough discussion, an honest review. If that takes a couple extra months to get there, I’m OK with...
...will still vividly remember your college days. The intervening years will be a blur. You will also be surprised that members attending their 60th will on the whole be in better shape than your class (survivor selection). After 75 years the books on the class will be archived. But look on the bright side. The time from the year I was born until the year your class records are finished will encompass 36 percent of Harvard’s history. Viewed in that perspective, the school is still young...
...China Mobile to react. In July the world's largest mobile carrier said it was developing its own smart phones using software based on the Android operating system and manufactured by Dell, Philips and Samsung. If you want to know the system's inspiration - and competition - you need only look at its name: the OPhone...