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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Says A Woman Can't Be Einstein? | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Says A Woman Can't Be Einstein? | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

Thursday, March 3. Harvard Organ Society Recital. 12:15 p.m. Adolphus-Busch Hall, Kirkland St. and Divinity Ave. Free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...nail polish gets everywhere," he says. "And you should always do your eye makeup first." This stage-trained son of Nigerian refugees first turned heads in 2002, when Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things came out. Ejiofor's intense, understated performance as Okwe, the Nigerian exile who discovers an organ-trading ring operating in London, lifted what might otherwise have been a routine thriller into high drama. This year he'll be tough to avoid. In Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, he plays a flirtatious pianist; in Red Dust, he stars alongside Oscar-winner Hilary Swank as a South African...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euro Express | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

...Soul Song” and “Another Travelin’ Song.” While the album is much more singer-songwriter oriented than Digital Ash, many of the songs include a fair amount of accompaniment from the mandolin, the harmonica or the organ. Country legend Emmylou Harris sings back-up vocals on three of the tracks (“We Are Nowhere And It’s Now,” “Another Travelin’ Song,” and “Landlocked Blues”), and their collaboration produces what is easily...

Author: By Ben F. Tarnoff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

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