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7 unusual facts about BRAINS!


Brains

"BRAINS!", song by the musician Voltaire, from the television show The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

Brains Brewery, brewery in Cardiff, Wales, sponsor of the Welsh rugby team

The Brains, Atlanta band who did the original version of the song "Money Changes Everything"

Brains, Loire-Atlantique, commune of the Loire-Atlantique département, in France

Daily Me

In Steven Johnson's book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software concerning emergent properties, Johnson addresses some of Negroponte's fears with homeostasis and feedback systems in mind.

Emmanuel Célestin Suhard

Emmanuel Suhard was born in Brains-sur-les-Marches, Mayenne, to Emmanuel Suhard (d. May 1874) and his wife Jeanne Marsollier.

Heeii

Heeii has built its technology on many of the same social principles as have been popularized by books such as The Long Tail, The Wisdom of Crowds, and Emergence.


A Measure of Salvation

Later, he determines the virus to be a strain of Lymphocytic Encephalitis, one that has caused the Cylon's brains to swell and other symptoms like high fever, stupor and disorientation.

Airplane Information Management System

The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the "brains" of Boeing 777 aircraft.

Best Brains

On November 5, 2007, Jim Mallon and Paul Chaplin of Best Brains revived the MST3K brand by launching a new series of Flash-based animated shorts featuring the robots of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the official website.

Boo Hoo

"BRAINS!" also appears on the compilation album Projekt: The New Face of Goth.

Brain size

It is also well known that crows, ravens, and African Grey Parrots are quite intelligent even though they have small brains.

Brains Brewery

Brains use shirt sponsorship for the Welsh rugby union team and the Crusaders as part of their marketing strategy.

The former Hancock's Brewery was purchased by Brains in 1999 and production moved to the larger site just on the southern side of Cardiff Central railway station during 2000.

Build a Nation

In April 2004, Beastie Boys' official website revealed that Adam Yauch would be producing Bad Brains' follow-up to God of Love.

Carceral archipelago

In 1791, Jeremy Bentham drew up architectural plans (it was his brother, Samuel Bentham who was the true architect; Jeremy Bentham was the legal and philosophical brains behind the project) that took the logic of plague control and transformed it into a plan for controlling people in prisons, workshops, schools and other institutions.

Chip Away the Stone

New Bomb Turks covered the song on their 2003 album Switchblade Tongues, Butterknife Brains.

Christopher Penfold

Penfold is perhaps most well known for being one of the brains behind Gerry Anderson's science fiction series Space: 1999.

Comparative cognition

Similarly, gene activity in the human brain is better understood through examination of the brains of mice by the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science (see link below), yielding the freely available Allen Brain Atlas.

Cordelia Fine

Her second book, Delusions of Gender, argues against the neuropsychological theory that men's and women's brains are intrinsically different by critically analysing hundreds of studies on the subject.

Dendritic filopodia

Mutations in the gene SHANK3 have been shown to elicit similar phenotypes to those seen in the brains of patients with these disorders.

Don Peppers

The Times of London has listed Peppers among their “Top 50 Business Brains,” and Accenture has included him in its global list of the “Top 50 Business Intellectuals.”

Edward Anthony Spitzka

Dr. Spitzka performed post mortem examinations of the brains of many distinguished American men, including Prof. Edward Drinker Cope, Prof. Joseph Leidy, Prof. Harrison Allen, Dr. William Pepper, George Francis Train, and Major John Wesley Powell.

Fit brains

Fit Brains was founded by Michael Cole, Paul Nussbaum, and Mark Baxter in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Her most famous patient was Joanne Greenberg, who wrote a fictionalized autobiography of her time at the mental hospital entitled I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which offers a very attractive portrayal of her as "Dr Fried": 'She is brainy...but after you know her a while, you'll find out that with little Clara Fried, brains are only the beginning'.

Kung Phooey

Not long after Art arrives, Helen Hu, an MSG (Monosodium glutamate) dealing (portrayed like a cocaine dealer) restaurant owner forces Art's stereotypical uncle into buying more MSG, Art intervenes and tries to fight Helen's muscle, the overweight and strong One Ton (perhaps a play on the Chinese dish wonton soup), the wise cracking "brains" of the outfit Lo Fat and the Kung-Fu fighter Non Fat.

Lux Interior

In 2002 Lux Interior performed the voice of a character on SpongeBob SquarePants - the lead singer of an all-bird rock band called the Bird Brains.

Permutation City

Within the story, "Copies", digital renderings of human brains with complete subjective consciousness, the technical descendants of ever more comprehensive medical simulations, live within VR environments after a process of "scanning".

Procrastination

Cal Newport argues that students' brains acknowledging such daunting tasks will not yield positive results.

Really Red

They often shared the bill with other such pioneering acts as D.O.A., The Dicks, Circle Jerks, The Offenders, 999, The Lewd, Articles of Faith, Mydolls, SPK, Negative Approach, Sado Nation, MDC, Vex, Culturcide, The Bad Brains, The Effigies, The Big Boys and The Dead Kennedys among many others.

Richardson Award

2011 - Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right

Rugg Williams

Prior to working on In the Heat of the Night, he could be seen on Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills as Swinton Sawyer who was the brains of the group, Family Matters, Hunter, Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories with Seth Green, Sheena Easton and F. William Parker and much more.

Scyllo-Inositol

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that scyllo-inositol can block the development of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques in the brains of transgenic mice.

Star of the Family

Adding to his troubles are: his wife runs off with a bellhop; his 17-year-old son (Michael Dudikoff) has more muscles than brains; and his crew at the firehouse are "strange" (Leo Feldman (Todd Susman) tells his mother he is a doctor instead of a fireman, Frank Rosetti (George Deloy) has only sex on the brain and Max Hernandez (Danny Mora), a Hispanic, speaks fractured English).

Steven Rose

He is married to the sociologist Hilary Rose with whom he shared the Gresham professorship, and with whom he has written and edited a number of books including Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology and, in 2012, Genes, Cells and Brains: the Promethean promises of the new biology, (Verso) described by Guardian reviewer Steven Poole as 'fascinating, lucid and angry' with a 'lethally impressive hit ratio.'

StixCamp

Best Talk awards were given to Paul Fenwick for his presentation Hacking Other People's Brains and to James Vautin for his presentation on Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Storm Bugs

Snatch Tapes was part of the then burgeoning cassette culture scene and also released tapes by David Jackman (later of Organum), and Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey as well as tracks by the Lemon Kittens, Alien Brains, Cultural Amnesia and the Beach Surgeons (led by a young Graham Massey, later of 808 State).

Tadanobu Tsunoda

The Japanese brain, argues Tsunoda, hears or processes music using the left hemisphere, where western brains use the opposite or right hemisphere to process music.

Brains which have Japanese and Polynesian languages as the "operating system" process sounds differently from other systems.

The Ambiguously Gay Duo

Bighead (voiced by Robert Smigel) - Bighead is a mad scientist with a very large, bald head, and is usually the brains behind most of the evil schemes.

The Brain That Changes Itself

Doidge presents an experiment performed by Alvaro Pascual-Leone in which he mapped the brains of blind people learning to read Braille.

The Brains

Keith Christopher went on to to join The Georgia Satellites, but was replaced as bass player in that band by Rick Price, guitarist for The Brains.

The Henderson Kids

They had a new gang of friends, including Vincent "Vinnie" Cerantonio (Alex Papps), twins Carol (Anita Cerdic) and Marty Summers (Nathan Croft), and Brian "Brains" Buchanan and Trevor Cathcart (Nicholas Creed), both holdovers from the original series.

The Mario Coldshot Foundation

Bring Your Own Brains, the movie, is nearing completion and already has distribution lined up with Audio Cine Films of Quebec and InterMedia of Seattle.

The Recipe Project

The project began when co-founders of the band One Ring Zero, Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp decided to take the recipe for Brains and Eggs by American chef Chris Cosentino and use it, word for word, as song lyrics, and as an added bonus collaborated with the chef by asking him what kind of genre of music he would prefer his recipe be sung as.

The Shallows

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, published in the UK as The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember, is a 2010 book by American journalist Nicholas G. Carr.

Thioflavin

The dye is widely used to visualize and quantify the presence of misfolded protein aggregates called amyloid, both in vitro and in vivo (e.g., plaques composed of amyloid beta found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients).

Tipu Aziz

Aziz’s work involves inducing Parkinsonian symptoms in monkeys, either surgically or using drugs, then switching off the symptoms using electrodes he has implanted in their brains.

Wilder Brain Collection

Edward H. Rulloff, a philologist and murderer who possessed one of the largest recorded brains.

Ze'ev Chafets

After the first primaries of the 2010 U.S. election season, Chafets identified Rush Limbaugh as "the brains and the spirit behind" the Republican Party's "resurgence" in the wake of the 2008 election of President Barack Obama.


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