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...have figured out empirically aspects of the neurophysiology of vision,” Livingstone said, such as the fact that the brain interprets color and luminosity separately. Stereoblind artists are particularly adept at creating realistic images, she said, since they are extremely sensitive to depth cues that most artists train to discover...
...every event we had so many people swimming together from Harvard and that really helped,” O’Conner said. “I think knowing that they all train together made them so confident going in and seeing each other they pushed each other harder...
...things. The males improved with weeks of practice too, says Nora Newcombe, a Temple psychologist who specializes in spatial cognition, and so the gender gap remained. But the improvement for both sexes was "massively greater" than the gender difference. "This means that if the males didn't train, the females would outstrip them," she says...
Lackawanna Six Sept. 13, 2002 From upstate New York, these men were accused of traveling to Afghanistan in May 2001 to train with al-Qaeda Afraid of being designated enemy combatants, all six pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists and were given prison sentences ranging from seven to 10 years...
They live off popcorn, cat food, margarine mixed with sugar, crates of cantaloupes that fell off a train and worse. "Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," her mother asks her hungry kids, with glittery-eyed logic, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?" Finally they fetch up in a tiny, tilting, unplumbed house in the Appalachians. "'It's good we raised you young 'uns to be tough,' Dad says. 'Because this is not a house for the faint of heart...