Let me begin by saying that it is my fervent hope that I am entirely wrong about what follows. I fear that the opposite is true, though, which is why I’m writing it now.
We must wait two more months before the Democrats take power, and the Bush Administration appears at this point to be actually working to harm the economy during these eight fatal weeks.
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Researchers think that brain disorders such as autism and schizophrenia are the result of a clash of incompatible genes between the mother and the father.
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That’s because parts of your brain are actually asleep – There’s no control center in your brain that dictates when it’s time for you to drift off to dreamland. Instead, sleep creeps up on you as independent groups of brain cells become fatigued and switch into a sleep state even while you are still (mostly) awake. Eventually, enough of these groups switch and you doze off.
If sleep were being directed by a control center, the whole brain would respond at the same time. Instead, it behaves like a self-directing orchestra in which most sections are more-or-less in sync, but a few race ahead or lag behind at any given time.
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How do psychopaths (who are all around us) find their victims? A new study suggests they are deeply attuned to vulnerable people.
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