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...should also realize the deeper fears inspired by Ian's little lamb. Without communities that uphold standards and that can transmit their values without resorting to hate, violence, or xenophobia, we may yet be scared by things less significant than little lambs...
...system must solve, the most daunting is posed by the wiring itself. After birth, when the number of connections explodes, each of the brain's billions of neurons will forge links to thousands of others. First they must spin out a web of wirelike fibers known as axons (which transmit signals) and dendrites (which receive them). The objective is to form a synapse, the gap-like structure over which the axon of one neuron beams a signal to the dendrites of another. Before this can happen, axons and dendrites must almost touch. And while the short, bushy dendrites...
...find it. He was the first to show that it grows in long-lived immune cells called macrophages and among the first to isolate it in the nervous system and semen. Just as important, he showed that there isn't enough active virus in saliva for kissing to transmit the infection. "David had the Midas touch," Hirsch recalls. "Whatever he did worked...
...then, I could envision a younger version of Bennett Weber trying to block, say, programs that contained strong language and instead doing something that caused the set to transmit nothing but cooking shows. "Do something!" he says, turning to the child he's trying to protect. That child is Jeffrey at 14, who says, with a sly grin, "Don't worry, Pop. I'll take care...
...first key to keep in mind about most large networks like the FAS Network and the Internet is that they transmit data in packets or small chunks. Whether you're sending an e-mail message, typing characters in a telnet session or listening to an audio file on the Web, all your communications are translated into packets of digital data...