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...sizzle of bacon frying, the smooth finish of polished granite, a phone number you need to call--all must pass through the hippocampus. Only if information gets in can it be moved along to the prefrontal cortex, where it will be held briefly in what is called working--or short-term--memory. When you look up the phone number, dial it and promptly forget it, that's your prefrontal cortex working in tandem with your hippocampus...
...been developing an all-inclusive business model—financial, social and environmental—to tackle sustainable mobility.“[The model’s] goals are to reduce carbon emissions and secure our energy future,” Cischke said. Ford will begin implementing its short-term goals in 2012, she said.In the past, Cischke has come under fire from some environmental advocates for opposing more stringent fuel economy standards. “It’s as if the Yankees promoted manager Joe Torre to reach out to the Red Sox,” Dan Becker...
...series of studies recently featured in the Harvard Men’s Health Watch newsletter substantiates the claim that optimists are generally healthier than pessimists. The research—which includes long-term studies beginning in the 1960s, and more recent short-term studies—primarily focused on cardiac health, including blood pressure and heart disease. Researchers used a variety of psychological and personality tests to place respondents on a spectrum between optimistic and pessimistic, concluding that in all of the categories examined, people who were deemed to be more optimistic fared better than those deemed to be more...
...strike over pensions by refinery workers in Scotland - which had earlier halted much of the North Sea's oil production and wreaked havoc with gas supplies in Scotland - won't do a nervous market any harm. But there's little sign of oil prices easing significantly in the short-term; Chakib Khelil, president of OPEC, the oil producers' cartel, admitted Monday he couldn't rule out prices hitting...
...same time, demand for grains has grown as developed countries produce more biofuels from food-crop feedstocks, and as people in China and India take advantage of their rapid income growth and start eating more meat (which requires more grain to feed more animals). Add to that a few short-term weather shocks, like drought in Australia, and emergency stores get depleted leaving prices to skyrocket. Fearful of food shortages, some large producer nations, including India, Vietnam and Kazakhstan, have limited exports. That can keep prices lower at home, but drives up costs further for people who people in import...