What Do Their Brains Say?

Quote of the day:
“Around here, the customer’s hardly ever right.”
--Doughnut Shop Owner Cliff Arnold, see http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060925/news_1m25ibdonut.html

Fly-on-the-wall moment:
California’s governor meets with the Dalai Lama: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700174.html

Interesting developing news story:
The growing body of research based on brain imaging. Many scientists are skeptical about how much brain imaging can tell us. Yet we continue to see news stories about it.

Today’s finding shows that brain connections continue to grow until age 45 or so, suggesting that our intellectual peak may be later in life than we’ve thought.

In my entry on September 19 I described a brain-imaging study of adolescents. There have been other recent reports using this technology to investigate the origin of genius. And there was an interesting piece in "The New Yorker" about the use of brain imaging to figure out why we are so bad at financial decision-making (http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060918fa_fact)

For general brain-imaging info, http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17458&ch=biotech