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Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
August 21, 2014
April 9, 2013
Analogically speaking...
Today, above the fold, the Washington Post's headline writers gave us a metaphorical harvest, flurry, road, and lightning rod.
March 29, 2013
March 21, 2013
March 2, 2013
"Caveman."
From the Washington Post interview with former National Institutes of Health Director Elias Zerhouni, on the sequester:
"Q: That answers one possible defense of the cuts, which is that the scientists could just go work for private industry instead.
A: That’s ridiculous. That’s the most ridiculous, caveman statement I’ve ever heard. That’s not the way science works. Science works with bright young people who are attracted to science. ... Research is an investment, it’s not an expense."
February 26, 2013
Understatement of the Week?
"In setting the nation on a course to map the active human brain, President Obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than ending the war in Afghanistan or finding common ground with his Republican opponents."
–The opening sentence of the article "Connecting the Neural Dots" by John Markoff in today's New York Times.
February 21, 2013
Compelling and Devastating.
"The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food" by Michael Moss will appear in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine.
February 14, 2013
Title of the Week!
The article, "When Pinocchio's nose does not grow: Belief regarding lie-detectability modulates production of deception," appears in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
February 13, 2013
"Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s."
"Now, if we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas. Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy – every dollar. Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s. They’re developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries 10 times more powerful. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race. We need to make those investments."
-Remarks by the President in yesterday's State of the Union Address.
January 3, 2013
One Night Only: The Brontes, Live!
We loved Dizzy Miss Lizzie's production of "The Brontes" at last summer's Capital Fringe Festival, and next Monday (January 7th) at 6 PM, NeuroCooking friends in the National Capital Area have a chance to see it at the Kennedy Center, for free.
October 2, 2012
Headline of the Day!
An article entitled "Swiss Cows Send Texts to Announce They’re in Heat" appears in today's New York Times.
September 29, 2012
June 7, 2012
"I feel / I feel like I am falling / and it feels / it feels like it's okay..."
"...we ain't nothing / but we are something..."
- from "Fall Apart with You" by Alejandro Escovedo (who will be appearing at Maxwell's in Hoboken on Monday!)
June 1, 2012
May 30, 2012
Proofreading is important, part 3.
Apropos of this morning's post on the existence of an intelligent proofreader, as well as our earlier posts on the importance of proofreading in baseball and near school buses, it now appears that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may be running for President of Amercia [sic].
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| Could the Washington Natinals [sic] be Amercia's [sic] team? |
May 25, 2012
April 28, 2012
Board of Education member: Rock Creek Hills Park not "adequate size," so Montgomery Hills site would be needed, too.
Françoise Carrier, Chair of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Planning Board, attended the April 17th meeting of the Montgomery County Board of Education. There, Board of Education member Laura Berthiaume told Ms. Carrier that, due to the small size of Rock Creek Hills Park, if Montgomery County Public Schools were to take the park to build Bethesda-Chevy Chase (B-CC) middle school #2, then it would soon become necessary to build a third B-CC middle school, on the site of the former Montgomery Hills Junior High (currently the Yeshiva and Torah School of Greater Washington).
You can read their exchange on Kensington Patch.
To help spread the word, after you click through to the blog post on Patch, click on the Facebook "recommend" button on that page!
April 10, 2012
"I am here tonight to support the recommendation of your staff... I will not repeat any of the points they have made."
My testimony at last night's meeting of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Planning Board is available.
April 7, 2012
James Charles Marshall, 1923-2012
"You come running in on platform shoes
with Marshall stacks
to at least just give us a clue..."
R.I.P. Jim Marshall.
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