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2 unusual facts about The Brains


Brains

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

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.



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Airplane Information Management System

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

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.

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 Cuco El Guapo

The brains of the robot are based on the ILA 9200 microprocessor design in 1985 by scientists and engineers of Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Spain and Mexico.

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.

Rosalind Franklin Award

2008 Eleanor Maguire on Mapping memory: the brains behind remembering

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.

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 Yard

J.J. - played by Alex Cardillo, the second smartest kid in school and the brains of Nick's outfit.

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).

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.