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...that Tononi theorizes offsets the wakeful brain's activity. During waking hours, the brain keeps adding new information about its environment, forming new circuits and new connections in an ever thickening neural network. But even the fruit-fly brain has its limits and, like any computer, needs a fail-safe shutdown mode as it gets close to overload. That's where sleep comes in. (See pictures of how animals sleep...
...president’s politically safe response was that “folks are sacrificing left and right.” This expression of sympathy may be commendable, but it is not enough. The crisis does not justify not confronting our life styles. Due to subsidies to agribusinesses, we don’t bear the true costs of food; due to an irrational fear of nuclear power, we are dependent on foreign sources of energy. Ideally, these and other indefensible policies and approaches should be relegated to the trash piles we are so good at generating. If changing these policies...
Representatives from the Advocate, the Dudley Co-op, the Crimson, and two final clubs, the Fox and the Spee, defended their student groups as “safe spaces” at a sex and student group real estate panel yesterday evening. The Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response specialist Gordon W. Braxton and Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd were also present and spoke at the beginning of the panel, which was co-sponsored by Harvard’s student-run sex magazine H Bomb and OSAPR. Moderator Colette S. Perold ’11 posed...
...among the top five killers in the world of children under 5 years old, yet it kills virtually no one in the U.S. thanks to vaccines. People have the misconception that we want to eliminate vaccines. Please understand that we are not an antivaccine group. We are demanding safe vaccines. We want to reduce the schedule and reduce the toxins. If you ask a parent of an autistic child if they want the measles or the autism, we will stand in line for the f___ing measles...
...Pashtun are a big, sprawling, insulated tribal people. There are some 40 million of them, but no one knows for sure because the central governments in Kabul and Islamabad have never felt safe enough to take a proper census. The Taliban are overwhelmingly Pashtun. The Pashtun have never had their own country, but they share a common language and identity...