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Here are some of the top brain-science stories of 2006, as compiled by Discover Magazine:
1. Man Recovers From Near-Coma After Two Decades
As 2006 plummets towards its destined death, what stories of the year are you reminded of the most vividly?
For 19 years after a car accident, Terry Wallis lingered speechless...
2. Looks Can Kill
Black defendants are more likely to receive the death penalty. It's also how black you look...
3. IQ Linked to Brain Structure
Embryonic stem cells helped rats suffering from Parkinson's-like symptoms...
4. Why We Are Not Chimps
Humans and chimpanzees are about 98 percent alike, yet the human brain is three times bigger and far more complex...
5. Stroke Injury Shows New Way to Kick the Habit
The brain damage caused by certain strokes may eliminate an addiction to nicotine...
6. Source of Empathy Found
Mirror neurons fire when you watch other people act...Cick here for loads more science stories from 2006...
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My most defining story of 2006?
Pluto gets relegated to a Dwarf-Planet
Simulacra are in vogue..."We made a mistake 76 years ago," says Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology who created the need for a stricter definition through his discovery of several massive objects in orbits beyond Pluto's. "I thought that people would be too scared to demote Pluto. It is the right scientific decision."
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CommentAuthoralexanderj
- CommentTimeDec 28th 2006
Hm, its ironic isnt it, that as atheists and theists collide in classrooms, scien´teists quarrel on whether or not the puplic would be able to handle that what defines a planet does not fit on the lumb of rock we call Pluto. - Trivial Persuit really is outdated, isnt it..?
My most defining ongoing story, is on dark matter. Right now these days, I roam around writing and reading on Golems, Gods, and Robots and Alchemy - Alchemy with its fifth element Ether, dark energy. I so badly want to write som brilliant shit about how the recent groundbrakin research on dark matter may interact with the old theories.. -
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The other planets are still laughing at Pluto. He was like the kid who wandered into the orgy and wondered what all the sweating was about.
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