Word: roundness
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Listening to melodic music decreased the activity of individual neurons in the deep brain, says Janigro, adding that the physical responses to the calming music ranged from patients' closing their eyes to falling asleep. Some patients even settled into a nice round of snoring. And when lead neurosurgeon Ali Rezai needed patients to perform an action, such as lifting a limb, during the procedures, he simply removed their earphones and relayed instructions. Once the music resumed, patients returned to their snoozing...
Omodele-Lucien substituted in the top spot for junior Alexei Chijoff-Evans, who was at the All-American National Championships in Tulsa, Okla. Chijoff-Evans lost in the first round to Kallim Stewart of UCLA, 6-1, 6-1. He recieved a bye to the second round of the consolation draw, where he lost to Robin Fahgen...
...other singles action, freshman Kristin Norton earned a spot in the Flight A singles draw. She responded by defeating the tournament’s No. 1 seed, Bianca Aboubakare of Brown, 6-3, 6-4. In the next round, Norton fell to eventual champion Nicole Bartnik of Columbia, 6-3, 6-0. In the consolation draw, Norton rebounded with...
Ricky Gervais must know he's cute. Cute like the grinning kid in the back row of a sixth-grade classroom, smiling at the teacher as he mutters a rude observation about how she looks from behind. He's cartoon-animal round and ingratiatingly impish. Yet Gervais, in films and on TV, keeps harping on his diminutive stature and lack of a heroic jawline. He might almost be begging for the viewer to reply, "No, you're not at all tremendously unattractive. The word for you, Ricky, would be cute...
...explanation for this new find, according to Bird, lies in the geometry of electrically charged water drops. While normal, uncharged water drops have round curves, charged ones have parabolic curves. So while normal drops repel or coalesce upon contact depending on the size of the drop and speed of collision, the unusual shape of charged drops causes them to come together briefly then separate...