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...Women in Science One of the most exciting findings in brain science is that different kinds of thoughts can be tied to different patterns of activity in the brain. A sidebar to my article "The Mysteries of Consciousness" [Jan. 29] showed colorful brain scans that revealed different hot spots when people saw a face and a place - and the same brain areas lit up when the people merely thought about faces and places. Unfortunately, my former colleagues who performed this study, Kathleen O'Craven of the University of Toronto and Nancy Kanwisher of M.I.T., were not credited. Steven Pinker Professor...
...most exciting findings in brain science is that different kinds of thoughts can be tied to different patterns of activity in the brain. A sidebar to my article "The Mysteries of Consciousness" [Jan. 29] showed colorful brain scans that revealed different hot spots when people saw a face and when they saw a place--and the same brain areas lit up when the people merely thought about faces and places. Unfortunately, my former colleagues who performed this important study, Kathleen O'Craven of the University of Toronto and Nancy Kanwisher of M.I.T., were not credited...
...find that several of the undergraduates who were in the course were genuinely serious about creative writing. “I didn’t think this [focus on writing] possible,” Hellman says. “I thought that writing was just this time-consuming sidebar for everybody.” A.J. Wolosenko ’06-’07 is writing a collection of short fiction for his thesis. He participated in two fiction writing courses during his junior year after taking a poetry course his sophomore year. After the first course, Wolosenko was sure...
...liver scream," says Enrico Giovannini, an Italian who works as chief statistician for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, though he concedes that the introduction of the euro brought with it some "terrible problems of perception." (Researchers are busy trying to figure out why - see sidebar.) Economists fear that that the credibility of official statistics could be undermined altogether, with potentially serious consequences. "An economy cannot function if half the people think that inflation is at 100% and the other half think that it's at 2%," frets Giovannini...
...Sidebar: Radcliffe Rundown, a short history of the Radcliffe Institute