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Parents routinely administer a spoonful of cough syrup to a child who can't get to sleep because of a bad cough. The expectation is that the medicine will give the child--and the parents--a silent night. But does it work? When researchers gave a group of children with upper respiratory infections one of two active ingredients in over-the-counter cough syrup or a placebo, they found that the kids taking either of the cough-syrup ingredients had no better improvement in their symptoms than those taking the dummy liquid. In fact, all three groups had fewer symptoms...
...send a very different message. "When the presenter started to read the news," Dmitruk tells TIME, "I said, 'I address all deaf viewers. Yushchenko is our President. Do not believe the Electoral Commission. They are lying.'" In a week filled with remarkable acts of political protest, Dmitruk's silent rebellion was one of the most defiant...
...SILENT NIGHT...
That explanation is still hypothetical, but Tononi thinks he has evidence to back it up. "In slow-wave activity, all the neurons fire for half a second," he explains. "Then they're totally silent for half a second." For complex bioelectrical reasons, that turns out to be a perfect way for the brain to lower the strength of the connections between its neurons. Intermittent firing makes the connections leaner and more efficient and may even allow the weakest ones to drop out, clearing the mind so that it can learn something new in the morning...
...most stunning moment of the night, one singer stood alone on the bleachers and called out while singing voices slowly marched in from all sides, uniting in a huge sound. Then together, they repeatedly called out the word “power.” The crowd was dead silent for the first time during the show, rapt in complete admiration of the magnitude of the group’s entrance...