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...humans show that both species prefer predictable electric shocks over unpredictable shocks. That's because, on a normal day, the brain works by following shortcuts. We recognize patterns in order to make split-second judgments about what we are seeing. Shortcuts are ruthlessly efficient, which is important for an organ that only uses about 40 watts of power per operation. But the more uncertainty we face, the more shortcuts our brains use. And the shortcuts lead to a slew of predictable errors...
...uncertainty that Huber and other autoworkers feel is spreading. While an organ grinder plays German folk songs in the street outside, Lilian Arndt, 51, is tying up a bouquet in her tiny flower shop. She has never seen Wall Street, but she is feeling the fallout from the global crisis that began in the U.S. "The situation is frightening and we just don't know how bad it will get," she says. "People order smaller bouquets. The hotels still order arrangements. And there are funerals, of course. But for many people, flowers have become a luxury." Eisenach faces the unsettling...
Mango’s research focuses on organ development, mainly of the digestive tract, in the widely-studied worm C. elegans and the associated cancer and birth defects that can arise from mutations in these developmental genes...
...groundbreaking studies of the pathways involved in organ development have opened up alternative ways of thinking about developmental hierarchies and networks,” Bloxham said in the press release...
Mango’s lab is currently studying how the gut forms in worms—useful because they are transparent and so scientists can study a complicated process, like organogenesis, by watching the organ form from beginning to end in a living embryo...