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...parody in the Onion was headlined STUDY REVEALS: BABIES ARE STUPID. According to "research," infants cannot learn to scuba dive or read a map. The joke works because our expectations of babies' intelligence have been inverted--a small sign of the revolution brought about by Spelke's work...
...into a figure eight, then resealing the loose ends, he could introduce two twists into the rubber band for every split. "Everybody laughed and thought I was crazy," Brown recalls. But as it turned out, that is exactly how the enzymes operate. The discovery put Brown on the scientific map...
...neuroscience, neurology and psychiatry at Yale, has spent the past 30 years immersed in the frontal lobe. In the early 1970s, working at the National Institute of Mental Health as one of the few women in the field, she became the first scientist to draw a comprehensive biological map of neuroscience's terra incognita, showing that its tangled web of neurons is actually a series of columns of highly specialized nerve cells...
...ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK: Simon Winchester goes for arcane subjects. His bestselling "The Professor and the Madman" told the story behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. His new book, "The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology" (HarperCollins; August 14) tells the story of William Smith, "whose lifelong obsession with fossils and the strata of rock formations proved to be the foundation for the science of geology." Kirkus adored it, giving it a starred review. "A fluid, fascinating, emotional story of an unlikely genius who created a science." HarperCollins is really behind...
...Only nine states have so far redrawn the congressional lines; the rest are still debating boundaries. The drawing phase is critical; the way state assemblies apportion the new maps could determine the makeup of the U.S. House of Representatives for the coming decade. That?s because in most states, the party that controls the legislature and governor?s seat also controls the map - and can draw the lines in ways that favor its candidates. "The stakes are very, very high," says one Democratic Party official...