Word: motioning
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...went to Baghdad when his daddy wouldn't. Now, with the health-care plan the President floated in his State of the Union address, he's literally picking up a page his father wouldn't keep in his health-care playbook. But the son has shrewdly disguised his slow-motion tax increase...
Sorry, Brad, you'll just be a presenter. No sweat, Jack, just stay seated in the front row and smile at Ellen DeGeneres' jokes. And to the Dreamgirls guys - who knew that audiences would like a hit musical more than the Motion Picture Academy does...
...degenerate dandy." He describes his sound on his MySpace page as "Beck via Queen and Elton John and a touch of Rufus W.[ainwright]." He appears to be having fun. Did I mention the full head of hair? I'd been given an advance copy of Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika's debut album due Feb. 5, but I'd been reluctant to play it. It's pop, therefore manufactured and disposable, right? What if I like...
...brain. When they recited sentences, the parts involved in language lit up. When they asked her to imagine visiting the rooms of her house, the parts involved in navigating space and recognizing places ramped up. And when they asked her to imagine playing tennis, the regions that trigger motion joined in. Indeed, her scans were barely different from those of healthy volunteers. The woman, it appears, had glimmerings of consciousness...
...spikier ones correspond to being awake and alert. These waves are not like the useless hum from a noisy appliance but may allow consciousness to do its job in the brain. They may bind the activity in far-flung regions (one for color, another for shape, a third for motion) into a coherent conscious experience, a bit like radio transmitters and receivers tuned to the same frequency. Sure enough, when two patterns compete for awareness in a binocular-rivalry display, the neurons representing the eye that is "winning" the competition oscillate in synchrony, while the ones representing the eye that...