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...process in and of itself. Our cognitive capacities, memories, dreams, etc., reflect distributed processes throughout the brain. The thousand conscious moments we have in a given day reflect one of our networks being "up for duty." When it finishes, the next one pops up, and the pipe organ--like device plays its tune all day long. What makes emergent human consciousness so vibrant is that the human pipe organ has lots of tunes to play, whereas the rat's has few. And the more we know, the richer the concert...
...neocons and in particular to Frederick Kagan, who taught military history at West Point for a decade and today works out of the American Enterprise Institute as a military analyst. Kagan argued for a surge last fall in the pages of the Weekly Standard, the neocons' house organ, after the military's previous surge, Operation Forward Together, failed in late October. Kagan turned to former Army Vice Chief of Staff Jack Keane, a retired four-star general who still has street cred at the Pentagon, to help flesh out the plan and then sell it to the White House...
...Stalin Organ...
...exhilarating. “I still remember the end of my first carol service, four years ago, with the choir singing the final verse of ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,’” Wilson writes in an e-mail. “The organ amplified the sheer emotional intensity of the moment and the beautiful, soaring descant made me realize that this moment would be how I remembered my freshman year….The Carol Services are a quintessential Harvard musical and emotional experience...
...California, San Francisco, cautioned that further research will be necessary before the discovery can be translated into specific treatments. “The biggest hurdle in any treatment will be to guide these progenitor cells to develop into the appropriate tissue, deliver them to the correct part of the organ, and then have them actually incorporated by the heart,” Srivastava said. The team identified the master cardiac cell in mice and showed that it can develop into cardiac muscle cells that power the heart, endothelial cells that make up blood vessels, and the smooth muscle cells that...