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...Tononi and a growing number of other scientists believe that sleep - not just in flies but also in higher-order mammals - may perform such a pressure-releasing role. During sleep, researchers theorize, the brain actively prunes the neural network laid out during waking hours, trimming away weaker connections that haven't been used in a while or weren't strong enough to begin with. The stronger connections are believed to be filed during sleep into long-term memory, where they can be accessed again and again as needed. All this nocturnal tidying creates room for new connections to be formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Good Is Sleep? New Lessons from the Fruit Fly | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...banners on opposite walls of the testing room, requiring the participants to wear house T shirts, and dividing the room with a bright line of blue tape. Just as the work sessions were about to begin, one member of each team was taken from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin a group; some were placed on their original team, others on the rival team. In both cases, the rest of the group had already begun working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Office Oddball Is Good for Business | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...Another example of Harvard’s commitment to global health is the Technology Development Accelerator Fund. Launched in 2006, the TDAF provides (on a competitive basis) dedicated research support to Harvard faculty in order to perform key experiments that enable early stage inventions to achieve “proof-of-concept,” thereby increasing the probability that they can be licensed to industry for commercial development. To date, the TDAF has awarded close to $3 million to support applied research being performed by Harvard scientists...

Author: By Isaac T. Kohlberg | Title: Advanced Global Access | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...chimpanzee, sits dressed in human clothes in a baby’s crib. In the wild, she would live with her family in a pack and range over a 3,000- to 15,000-acre expanse of jungle. Here, she lives alone in a suburban bedroom, leaving only to perform tricks and entertain people...

Author: By Lewis A. Bollard | Title: The Chimp Charade | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...over Spring Break, as the co-ed squad placed first in the Boston Dinghy Club Cup at home on the Charles and the women’s team finished a respectable runner-up in the Duplin Trophy Women’s Team Race in Medford, Mass. Also, some individuals performed well in the Owen, Mosbacher, and Knapp Trophies in Kings Point, NY.“We had a very successful weekend,” sophomore captain Alan Palmer said. “We were able to perform well at home and also had a strong showing down in New York...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sailing Performs Strongly | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

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