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...It’s a caustic,” he said, peering into it. “A what?” I said. “It kind of looks like a butt,” he told me.He was pointing to a faint pattern on the surface of the coffee—a double curve where light hit the liquid.“Has that always been there?” I said. How had I missed it? I was a writer. I was supposed to notice things. “Yup,” he said...
...activated areas of the brain receive more blood and more oxygen, the optical properties [of the brain tissue] change," says Luu. "This allows us to infer the pattern of activity beneath." As it turned out, they inferred very well. Blood flow was not a perfect predictor, but fully 80% of the time, the pattern on the brain monitor did suggest the preferences the subjects had indicated earlier...
...with a technique like this. In the terra incognita of cognitive research, brain-computer interfaces are increasingly common - but complicated. Typically, subjects have to be trained to use them and must rehearse a random, energy-intensive brain task like mentally singing a song in order to light up a pattern of brain activity that sends a signal to the researchers. The new technique extracts information much more directly by targeting the frontal lobe's preference functions. What's more, while other studies have required the subjects to activate their brains over and over again so that researchers could average...
...Harvard set up its offensive pattern quickly, and at 2:09, Vaillancourt crossed the puck to junior Cori Bassett. Bassett lifted the puck into the top left corner of the net, where it crossed the goal line before bouncing out. Though play continued for a few seconds, the referees belatedly ruled in favor of the Crimson, putting the team...
...memory chip business. When semiconductor prices are high, manufacturers rush headlong into massive investments in new factories, leaving them vulnerable to supply gluts and economic slowdowns. Yet like mosquitoes to one of those electric zappers, chipmakers make the same mistake again and again, creating a binge-and-purge business pattern that occurs with sickening regularity. Of the top 10 largest manufacturers of dynamic random access memory chips, or DRAMs, in 1990, only one - Samsung Electronics of South Korea - remains on that list today...