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November / December 2009
Scientific American Mind
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Cover; November / December 2009; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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From the Editor; November / December 2009; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)
Smart Set
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Letters; November / December 2009; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)
Letters to the editor about the November / December 2009 issue of Scientific American MIND
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Head Lines; November / December 2009; by Maggie Koerth-Baker; Winnie Yu; Monica Heger; Frederik Joelving; Nicole Branan; Frederik Joelving; Sunny Sea Gold; Harvey Black; Robert Epstein; Erica Westly; Diane Welland; 8 Page(s)
Wide-Reaching Effects; For Best Results, Mix It Up; Mental Bottleneck; Related Disorders; Reading Minds; Why Success Breeds Success; Pollution's Toll on the Brain; Empathy Heals; Risk-Taking Teens Have More Mature Brains; Personal Training by Phone; Does D Make a Difference?; Evolving Mental Maps; Why the #$%! Do We Swear?; Morning Sickness Tied to Smart Kids
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Perspectives: Dangerous Liaisons; November / December 2009; by Ophelia Austin-Small; 2 Page(s)
The damaging theatrics of drama queens may spring from defects etched in the brain. Yet you can limit the havoc they wreak on your life
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Illusions: Cracking the da Vinci Code; November / December 2009; by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran & Diane Rogers-Ramachandran; 3 Page(s)
What do the Mona Lisa and President Abraham Lincoln have in common?
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Calendar; November / December 2009; by Frederik Joelving; Victoria Stern; 1 Page(s)
Exhibitions, conferences, movies and more
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What Does a Smart Brain Look Like?; November / December 2009; by Richard J. Haier; 8 Page(s)
A new neuroscience of intelligence is revealing that not all brains work in the same way
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Why We Worry; November / December 2009; by Victoria Stern; 8 Page(s)
Chronic worrying stems from a craving for control. But the more we fret, the less our bodies are able to cope with stress
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Love The One You're With; November / December 2009; by Nicholas A. Christakis; James H. Fowler; 8 Page(s)
Combing through your social network is the most fruitful—and most common—way of finding the love of your life
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Decoding Dementia; November / December 2009; by Joel N. Shurkin; 8 Page(s)
New technologies for spotting Alzheimer's disease are poised to unravel its cause and speed progress toward effective treatments
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Meditation on Demand; November / December 2009; by Peter B. Reiner; 4 Page(s)
New research reveals the cell mechanisms underlying a meditative state
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We're Only Human: The Color of Sin; November / December 2009; by Wray Herbert; 2 Page(s)
Ancient fears of filth and contagion may explain why we think of morality in black and white
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Reviews and Recommendations; November / December 2009; by Gary Stix; Frederik Joelving; Melinda Wenner; Corey Binns; Victoria Stern; Nicole Branan; 2 Page(s)
Brainy Gifts
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Ask the Brains; November / December 2009; by Terry Sejnowski; Robert O. Duncan; 1 Page(s)
Is it true that when we drive, walk or reach for something our brain performs calculations? Is this ability learned or innate?; Why do most customers at my bookstore have trouble understanding my instructions to swipe their debit cards with the magnetic stripe "toward me?" Almost everyone positions their card the wrong way, then asks in confusion, "Stripe toward me?"—meaning themselves. What is causing everyone to make the same mistake?
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Head Games; November / December 2009; by The Editors; 1 Page(s)
Match wits with the Mensa puzzlers
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MIND in Pictures; November / December 2009; by Dwayne Godwin; Jorge Cham; 1 Page(s)
Artificial Intelligence?
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