The Guardian:
Lavlee Mollik tells Bangladesh newspaper that she wants her daughters to live and be educated in AustraliaThe mother of conjoined Bangladeshi twins who were separated in an operation in Melbourne has said she does not want c (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
NEW YORK — The NFL Players Association wants the league to remove the co-chairman of the league's committee on concussions because the union believes he is biased.Dr. Ira Casson has criticized independent and league-sponsored (Read More)
BBC:
Many Nigerians have returned home to escape the rigours of the downturn in the West. But with Nigeria experiencing its own credit crunch can the country's brain gain be sustained?. (Read More)
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I had the privilege of laughing my butt and brain off whilst reading this superb analysis of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance video by my Italian sci-fi-obsessed, Harvard-throttling friend of friends, Ainge. Her livejournal (holy crap (Read More)
BBC:
The granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini says criminals have stolen part of his brain and blood to sell on the internet. (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
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)
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)
Headline News:
U.S. Ski Team slalom star Cody Marshall is starting to think snow. It's been four months since the athlete suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, and amazingly, the superstar has come a long way. (Read More)