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...pruning is guided both by genetics and by a use-it-or-lose-it principle. Nobel prizewinning neuroscientist Gerald Edelman has described that process as "neural Darwinism" - survival of the fittest (or most used) synapses. How you spend your time may be critical. Research shows, for instance, that practicing piano quickly thickens neurons in the brain regions that control the fingers. Studies of London cab drivers, who must memorize all the city's streets, show that they have an unusually large hippocampus, a structure involved in memory. Giedd's research suggests that the cerebellum, an area that coordinates both physical...
...camera has been filming upside down. Entitled “Shift,” the nine-minute film by Ernie Gehr switches between an upright and inverted point-of-view. The film continues on in this way with bicycles, garbage trucks, and, at one point, a van of piano movers. “An almost perfect example of Emerson’s principle that a few mechanical changes can make a person think,” Sitney said afterward. “What we see here is a portrait of street life by someone who perceives it with great intensity...
...involves ensuring that the air quality is sufficient for the art collections to be reinstalled. The goal is for the new, expanded Fogg to re-open in 2013, after all current Harvard undergraduate classes have moved on. NEW WINGS AND OTHER THINGSThe Quincy Street expansion proposed by architect Renzo Piano, who is also currently renovating the Isabella Stuart Gardener museum in Boston, will be the first substantial renovation of the Fogg. Additions have been made to the Prescott Street side of the facility, but the original 1927 section of the building—which replaced the 1895 building that first...
...Israeli newspapers ran interviews with McCartney on their front pages and featured little celebrity nuggets such as Sir Paul requesting that his Royal Suite be fitted out with a specially tuned piano and a plate of Jerusalem humus. McCartney, whose show celebrates Israel's 60th anniversary, brushed off the death threat from Islamic radicals. "I do what I think and I have many friends who support Israel," he told the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. In another interview, with the Jerusalem Post, McCartney said: "Any high-profile event brings with it some worries." He added: "I think that most people understand that...
...gather for discreet conversation, the furniture has been overturned. The floor is covered in scattered shards of glass, broken bits of the ceiling, torn carpet, leaves, and small pools of blood. The once blindingly luminous ceiling chandelier now dangles precariously over the reception desk. Only the rarely used grand piano appears undamaged. And there's water everywhere...