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Thursday, March 10. Harvard Organ Society Recital. 12:15 p.m., Adolphus-Busch Hall. $15 regular tickets; $10 students and seniors; $5 Organ Society Members. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office...
...DIED. RAYMOND MHLABA, 85, member of the African National Congress and for 26 years a political prisoner on South Africa's infamous Robben Island; in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Along with Nelson Mandela, Mhlaba was one of four members of the prison's "High Organ," which negotiated with the apartheid government for better conditions and the release of political prisoners. Freed in 1989, he went on to serve as a regional official and as High Commissioner to Uganda and Rwanda. Upon Mhlaba's death, Mandela called him "one of the real stalwarts of our movement, a person...
...whom dismiss him as an ignoramus) generally concede that he was not entirely wrong. Thanks to new brain-imaging technology, we know there are indeed real differences between the male and the female brain, more differences than we would have imagined a decade ago. "The brain is a sex organ," says Sandra Witelson, a neuroscientist who became famous in the 1990s for her study of Albert Einstein's brain. "In the last dozen years, there has been an exponential increase in the number of studies that have found differences in the brain. It's very exciting...
Indeed, men and women seem to handle emotions quite differently. While both sexes use a part of the brain called the amygdala, which is located deep within the organ, women seem to have stronger connections between the amygdala and regions of the brain that handle language and other higher-level functions. That may explain why women are, on average, more likely to talk about their emotions and men tend to compartmentalize their worries and carry on. Or, of course...
Thursday, March 3. Harvard Organ Society Recital. 12:15 p.m. Adolphus-Busch Hall, Kirkland St. and Divinity Ave. Free...