February 2012
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“During slow wave sleep…virtually all cortical neurons engage in slow...”
– Giulio Tononi, “An information integration theory of consciousness” in BMC Neuroscience 5:42 (2004).
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“My birthday! It all came back to that. But I didn’t feel it was my...”
– L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
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“In a lot of recent library-porn lit, sex is set against an anguished backstory....”
– from “Checking Out” by Avi Steinberg, at the Paris Review Daily (Jan. 30, 2012)
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“Now that manufacturing is being transformed by the same forces that...”
– from “Beyond Blue Part Four: Better Living in the 21st Century” by Walter Russell Mead, writing at The American Interest (Feb. 8, 2012)
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“Saint Valentine is the patron saint of both lovers and epilepsy…”
– Vaughan Bell, writing at Mind Hacks (Feb. 14, 2012), with this 1988 Italian stamp showing St. Valentine next to an EEG tracing.
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“Cannabis and chili pepper have been used for medical, gastronomical and...”
– Istvan Nagy et al., “An Historical Introduction to the Endocannabinoid and Endovanilloid Systems”, in Cannabinoids and the Brain (2008)
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“Wacky, wobbly, and wet.”
– Mnemonic for the clinical presentation of normal-pressure hydrocephalus: progressive dementia, ataxic gait, and urinary incontinence, from High Yield Neuroanatomy by James Fix (2008)
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January 2012
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“The quality of mind I value…is a kind of nimbleness, a fluidity of mind. The...”
– Steve Randy Waldman, writing at interfluidity (Jan. 21, 2011)
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“Now the suitors turned to dance and song,
to the lovely beat and sway,
waiting...”
– Odyssey, book 1 (trans. Robert Fagles 1996).