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TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.Smiling kids (Read More)
Huffington Post:
By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.
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CNN:
Artist Jeanne-Claude, co-creator of the 2005 Central Park art installation "The Gates," died Wednesday from complications of a ruptured brain aneurysm, according to the Web site Jeanne-Claude shared with her husband, the arti (Read More)
The Guardian:
She was one half of the of the environmental artist known to the world as ChristoThe flame-haired artist Jeanne-Claude – or Mrs Christo, as she sometimes called herself – worked with her husband to mummify the Pont Neuf, to e (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Ricky Hatton is about to try to shed four stone and have one fight too manySo, after hibernating since May, Ricky Hatton is coming back. He's going to put down the bacon butty and rip four stones off that small frame to get i (Read More)
The Guardian:
After a turbulent 500 years it is understandable – I sometimes feel like putting my feet up too – but it is a mistakeIt's not true that last night's appointments at the EU's Brussels conclave are without historic precedence. (Read More)
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
It's a naturally occurring brain chemical with an unwieldy name: 4-hydroxybutyrate (4-HB). Taken by mouth, it can be abused or used as a date-rape drug. Now, a team of Ohio and Michigan scientists have determined new routes b (Read More)
New York Times:
Increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down syndrome.
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CNN:
Artist Jeanne-Claude, co-creator of the 2005 Central Park art installation "The Gates," died Wednesday from complications of a ruptured brain aneurysm, according to the Web site Jeanne-Claude shared with her husband, the arti (Read More)
CNN:
Artist Jeanne-Claude, co-creator of the 2005 Central Park art installation "The Gates," died Wednesday from complications of a ruptured brain aneurysm, according to the Web site Jeanne-Claude shared with her husband, the arti (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Obituaries:
Jeanne-Claude, 74, the flame-haired wife and collaborator of the environmental artist Christo, who was her husband's valiant defender and handled the complex fundraising for their enormous fabric artworks, died Nov. 18 at a N (Read More)
The Guardian:
Whether playing, training, warming up, warming down or simply travelling, the English sportsman is an accident waiting to happenAre the English the world's most injury‑prone people? Certainly the recent plague of afflictions (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
It is immoral to encourage young people to risk brain injury by repeated blows to the headYour article on the resurgence of boxing highlights an irrational, immoral and dangerous funding strategy that encourages people to ris (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Apparently, the more you drink the greater your protection against heart disease. Does that mean we should all be drinking at least a bottle of wine a day?The case against drinking alcohol has been promoted for so long and wi (Read More)
Mind Hacks:
New Scientist reports on a new study on how a gene that gives protection against the deadly brain disease kuru became more common in people exposed to the condition through their cannibalistic tradition of eating the bodies o (Read More)
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observer.guardian.co.uk:
Artist who created the 2005 Central Park installation The Gates and other large scale 'wrapping' projects around the globe with her husband ChristoArtist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation The Gates (Read More)
ScienceDaily: Mind & Brain News:
Researchers in Norway have discovered a mechanism that the brain uses to filter out distracting thoughts to focus on a single bit of information. (Read More)