Word: scans
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...fact, love, as it turns out, is not very ethereal at all, but has a local habitation and a name. Andreas Bartels, a doctoral candidate at University College London, recently decided he would use an MRI to scan the brains of 17 students who said they were in love. He showed them pictures of their sweethearts and found that there were four particular parts of the brain that showed increased activity and blood flow. The areas that lighted up are part of the anterior cingulate cortex, which is near the brain's midline; the middle insula, which is deep...
...encoding is the first step in administration plans to test equipment designed to limit access to University facilities. Gibson said he hopes to experiment later this spring with shoe-box-like readers that scan the stripe to determine whether I.D. cards are valid and whether their holders are entitled to board privileges...
Inevitably, many of the other sights are military - rusting tanks, old emplacements. But there are some scenic splendors. Areas protected by mines and barbed wire have become accidental nature reserves, and while binoculars are used to scan the opposite coast for signs of trouble, they also spot herons, geese, and kingfishers...
...Only swiping things don't work," she added. "You can still use the ids at at a library because they scan the barcode...
...back in my rightful place. I figured I'd go to amihotornot.com a website where masochists and narcissists alike post their photos anonymously and let visitors rate them on a scale of 1 to 10. Because high school kids like to go to the site and scan in yearbook pictures from the Most Likely to Keep Using the Thyroid-Problem Excuse category--or snapshots of their shirtless dads--I thought I'd get a 6 or even a 7. Then, feeling cocky, I'd ask my girlfriend Cassandra to post her picture so I could find out whether to trade...