Word: shocks
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Though people complain about their faulty memories as often as about the weather, memory is just about the most durable phenomenon in human nature. Once imprinted in the brain, specific memories withstand the most devastating attacks, such as electric shock and mind-deadening drugs. This is so great a mystery that there was a packed house in Berkeley last week as a dozen different breeds of scientists convened at the University of California for a two-day symposium on "Behavior, Brain and Biochemistry...
...upon a seemingly harmless chemical, magnesium pemoline (tradenamed Cylert), which increases RNA synthesis twofold or threefold. Working with Dr. Nicholas P. Plotnikoff, the researchers put Cylert in rat feed, then placed the animals in a chamber where they had to learn to avoid an electric shock. Rats on Cylert learned after only two or three trials; rats with no Cylert took eight to ten trials. Moreover, the Cylert rats remembered their lesson as long as six months, while untreated rats forgot it within a few days...
...extracted from the brains of trained animals can be used to accelerate learning when injected into untrained animals. Converse evidence that chemicals are involved in forgetting came from the University of Michigan's Dr. Bernard W. Agranoff, who reported that trained goldfish forgot how to avoid a shock, and untrained fish did not learn as well after injections of the antibiotic puromycin...
Another obstacle is the culture shock that some feel coming to Harvard from homes like the Imperial Valley. To counter this, ten per cent of the fund is spent putting some students through a New England prep school for a year before they begin college. One student liked the small town atmosphere so much that be turned down Harvard and arranged a scholarship for himself to Amherst...
...derby hats. Magritte's divorce from reality is sensuous enough to appeal to sensibility, but his carefully rendered iconography is so personal that it suggests only a visible world in which no one ever lived. These images are deliberately insoluble puzzles, meticulously worked-out scenarios of subtle shock calculated to spur the unconscious. But contemporary man finds enough anxiety in the very air that he breathes and more challenging puzzles in the streets that he walks -in the direct apprehension of reality...