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What are you doing when you aren't doing anything at all? If you said "nothing," then you have just passed a test in logic and flunked a test in neuroscience. When people perform mental tasks--adding numbers, comparing shapes, identifying faces--different areas of their brains become active, and brain scans show these active areas as brightly colored squares on an otherwise dull gray background. But researchers have recently discovered that when these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes...
...sought to severely limit the President's capacity to send troops abroad without explicit authority from Congress. It passed into law only over Richard Nixon's veto. All subsequent Presidents have refused to recognize its constitutionality. It has not yet been subjected to a full constitutional test before the Supreme Court...
...test his theory, Pitman went to the the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and intercepted patients who had suffered serious traumas. He gave some of them propranolol, a drug that interferes with adrenaline uptake. The rest got placebos. He also had them tape-record accounts of the traumas. When he played back the tapes eight months later, eight of 14 placebo patients developed higher heart rates, sweaty palms and other signs of PTSD. None of the patients on the real drug had such responses...
...Alllooksame.com: So you say you’re not a racist? Test your ability to tell Asians apart with this online quiz...
...term “tasting” alerts the eager foodie to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, there will be food. But those looking to please their palate at the Pub Grub Taste Test on Tuesday, Jan. 9th would have been severely disappointed. Practically no “tasting” occurred at all. Instead of an enticing gastronomic experience, students encountered ’Noch’s pizza and soft drinks. Hanging from the wall of the newly renovated space in Loker Commons was a flat-screen TV showing surf and motor cross videos...