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...science staff set out to explore equally intriguing questions: Michael Lemonick discusses why memories can remain so vivid and visceral; Christine Gorman investigates how we can avoid burnout; J. Madeleine Nash exposes the wondrous world of mirror neurons, which play a key role in the development of language, empathy and human society; while Alice Park learns how brain science is contributing to marketing and advertising campaigns. In Manchester, Michael Brunton visits the Babylab, a research facility in England whose sole mission is to understand how babies' brains develop. TIME's talented graphics director, Jackson Dykman, managed to squeeze more than...
Specialized neurons are being found that allow us to mirror the behavior of people around us, helping us learn such primal skills as walking and eating as well as how to become social, ethical beings. The mystery of memory is being teased apart, exposing the way we store facts and experiences in addition to the emotional flavors associated with them. Magnetic resonance imaging is probing the brain as it operates, essentially--if crudely--reading our minds, and raising all the attendant ethical questions...
Soon, out-of-towners arrive, having seen television reports of the mirror's December inauguration. Some are more than just curiosity seekers. Stephan Stucky lives in the Swiss town of Brig-Glis, which is shut out from the sun for two months each winter. He was expecting more from the mirror. "I thought you'd feel the warmth. It's more like a flashlight," he says, looking up and squinting. "I was expecting deck chairs and umbrellas, and cold drinks." A group of five men, including two building engineers, come to scout the project for the Italian town of Selvetta...
...ambitions of Viganella Mayor Pierfranco Midali, a 47-year-old train driver, don't stretch quite that high, but he says the €100,000 mirror project, funded by a bank and local governments, has already proved its worth by attracting so much attention. He admits the sun's bounce could be bigger. Midali notes: "Being the first, you can't expect perfection. We want to improve the design so others can use it too." Lodge owner Ragozza is more interested in p.r. than the science, suggesting the town could even start a Miss Mirror bikini contest each winter...
...reality is sometimes best expressed by what is absent or left behind. The exhibition is not called light sensitive for nothing (this also happens to be the nickname given to the NGV's departments of photography and works-on-paper). And astute viewers might also note the number of mirror images that appear throughout the show-from Andrew's currawongs and Liu's "ladies" to Peter Kennedy's twinned self-portrait in which he regards his own cancer cells. Made abundantly clear is the camera's singular ability to both mirror life and morph it, expanding our perceptions...