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A sequence analysis of two mutant hilA genes in Salmonella
The Time-Altered Reality of the Amondawa
Great civilizations have often looked to the position of the moon, the stars, and our sun as a tool for interpreting the passage of time—the link between time and space. The orbit around our sun has been divided into months, months into weeks, weeks into days, days into hours, hours into minutes, minutes into seconds...
The brain speed of short people?It takes a split-second longer for sensory signals to reach the brains of tall people, which means that their “now” is actually a little less timely.
Well either way, the brain speed difference is only a few extra milliseconds. Whether it's enough to account for a intellectual difference, I'll let you decide. Although, it could go to explain a lot about the NBA. Remembering to RememberThere are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more.
Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique—called the memory palace—and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including you. R.I.P. Creativity?Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
When Half a Brain Is Better than a Whole
The operation known as hemispherectomy—where half the brain is removed—sounds too radical to ever consider, much less perform. In the last century, however, surgeons have performed it hundreds of times for disorders uncontrollable in any other way. Unbelievably, the surgery has no apparent effect on personality or memory.
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