Natalie Angier reports from the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste held in San Francisco, including this tidbits about how smells, feelings and memories become so easily and intimately entangled.
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"For a long time, I didn't really believe in the whole story, but with time I became more and more convinced there is something very deep in the theory," Dr. Bouchaud said. "I think these people had fantastic intuition about how the whole problem should be attacked."
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"A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists"
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"Without independent safeguards, there’s little to temper patients’ aching hearts."
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"However you interpret it, you can't watch "Dancing" for very long without feeling a little happier."
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...I’ve been able to prove how much more I can accomplish by answering a question, and posting it on a blog...than I can by answering the same question over and over. I still help people, but in a more open and collaborative fashion....
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"A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times....On average the worker also stops at 40 Web sites over the course of the day."
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"Cutting and pasting a lot of content into a blog is not what we want to see...It is more consistent with the spirit of the Internet to link to content so people can read the whole thing in context." Except that content is often behind a subscription wall
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The story of Darwin and his big idea of evolution through natural selection offers numerous insights into how ideas spread. For example, why do we exalt Darwin above the others who thought of it first, or conceived of it better? The reason is the "Origin.
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The reason science really matters runs deeper still. Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable — a transformation....
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Ray Kurzweil: by the 2020s we’ll be adding computers to our brains and building machines as smart as ourselves
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“You can study music, dance, narrative storytelling and artmaking scientifically, and you can conclude that yes, they’re deeply biologically driven, they’re essential to our species, but there would still be something missing, and that thing is an a
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What is the connection among habits, creativity and innovation? When we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.
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David Brooks explains the new cognitive age: " We're moving into a more demanding cognitive age. In order to thrive, people are compelled to become better at absorbing, processing and combining information."
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Carefully structured training in working memory based on a variation of the Concentration card game leads to improvements in fluid intelligence--the kind of mental ability that lets us solve new problems without having any previous experience, and that ha
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Some brains do deteriorate with age. But for most aging adults, much of what occurs is a gradually widening focus of attention and sifting through a clutter of information that makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact like a name or a number.
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Being smart can be bad for the health of the animal.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
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