Word: predictableness
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...most studies agree that men's brains are about 10% bigger than women's brains overall. Even when the comparison is adjusted for the fact that men are, on average, 8% taller than women, men's brains are still slightly bigger. But size does not predict intellectual performance, as was once thought. Men and women perform similarly on IQ tests. And most scientists still cannot tell male and female brains apart just by looking at them...
...year 2004 was one for the record books: the world economy grew at its fastest rate in almost three decades. And most observers predict that growth in 2005 will continue to be relatively robust. The developed world, to paraphrase British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's 1957 proclamation to his countrymen, has rarely had it so good. Why, then, are so many economists so nervous? When TIME's annual Board of Economists round table met during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, the discussion focused less on what is going right in the global economy than...
...anyone who believes" the Bush Administration will make a serious effort on the deficits, "I didn't find them." Unless priorities change, she expects short-term interest rates in the U.S. to continue rising steadily until they hit about 5%--double their present level--and she and Sachs predict painful budget cuts and a U.S. recession in the medium term. "There'll be a wearing and exhausting process ahead. We're only in the first stage, and it'll get ugly before it gets better," Sachs said...
...designed for the Color Pixter electronic sketchpad. The brainchild of M.I.T. professor Tod Machover, Symphony Painter ($20, fisher-price.com; Color Pixter sold separately) combines visual arts and music: you draw a picture and then press the triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation of your artwork. Experienced musicians might predict some outcomes: lines curving up tend to produce increasingly higher pitches, and parallel lines generate harmonies. Different colors represent different instruments' melodic riffs or percussion beats, and the stylus can change tempo. Machover thinks formal notation systems are restrictive. "You would never tell a 5-year-old to imitate...
COREY FELDMAN could see more press attention than he has since The Goonies. As for spoon-bending psychic URI GELLER, we predict you might actually recognize him in the future...