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...another person we care about, women will resonate with that feeling a lot longer than men. This is not to say that men don't do this. They do. They start out very quickly in the MNS and get a quick flash of what's going on. Then they switch into another system called the temporal parietal junction system, which allows them to start Google-searching their entire brain circuit for ways to fix the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Male Brain: More Complex Than You Think | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Though that “absurd talk” may obscure any deeper meaning, the experience alone is bizarrely engaging. Characters merge and switch roles, slip without warning into gaudily staged dance routines, and ramble about six-foot moles and eating paper as the story follows Leah from traumatic childhood music lessons to the death of her husband, making all sorts of incomprehensible pit stops along...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Absurdity Obscures Meaning, Not Experience | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...Bock’s switch to the B boat proved to be a good strategic move, as both the A and B lineups posted better finishes on Sunday than they had the day before. Switching with Bock to captain Alan Palmer’s A Boat was junior Meghan Wareham, helping the boat come in sixth place. The A boat took two third-place finishes on Saturday but landed outside the top ten for the majority of the day’s races. The following day Palmer and Wareham made the top ten in nearly every race, and notched...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Winds Play Part In Regatta | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...geographic reach of individual psychiatrists, videoconferencing can help cut down on some of the stigma of going to see a shrink. Students at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas, can now go to the school's health clinic and - without having to press a button or flip a switch - be face to face with a psychiatrist. "There is a flat-screen TV, and that's where they can see the clinician and talk in real time," says Dr. Fred Thomas, a psychiatric epidemiologist who heads community-based mental-health services and policy for the University of Texas Medical Branch, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telemental Health: Videoconferencing As Psychiatry Aid | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...military commanders and counternarcotics officials finally agree on what to do with the poppy crop - McChrystal is likely to win that debate - they will confront the next challenge: getting the farmers to eventually grow other crops instead. The last time officials in Kabul tried to get Marjah farmers to switch to wheat cultivation was in 2008, when opium was selling at $75 a kg, a long way down from the peak of $250 a kilo in 2003. Even so, the farmers turned down subsidized wheat seed and fertilizer, believing opium would be more profitable. They were wrong. When the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Fix | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

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