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There was no way, with my brain fog, I could have remembered everything my oncologists told me and having so much information-—including the visit summary notes-—in one place was an absolute lifesaver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
In the new mouse study, the scientists followed proteins as they moved out of the brain, through these channels, and into the skull bone marrow.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
“He’s wearing pearls and has auburn hair that covers one eye — it’s like a playground for your brain reading that kind of stuff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I’ve had times where I’ve almost drowned. I had mud up to my brain, man.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Half the world away from San Francisco in 1862, French surgeon Paul Broca in Paris announces a discovery that finally turns brain theory into brain science.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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The fMRI also detected less synchronized blood flow in regions of the children’s brains associated with attention and information processing than they did in the adults’.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Since 1,374 brains weren’t examined, the true prevalence of CTE isn’t known but could be substantially higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Arm designs the brains or CPUs of microchips already used in hundreds of billions of phones, cars, smartwatches and gadgets across the globe.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
But stunningly high numbers of women report having intrusive thoughts about harming their children—moments when their own brains betray them, when it’s clear that none of us are in total control over our own minds.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Like the ancients, Descartes assumed that nothing, not even knowledge, can be created out of nothing, which means that all ideas—all philosophies, all notions, all future discoveries—already exist in people’s brains when they are born.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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That way, it won’t turn into a brained brick because of a human error somewhere in northern Virginia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Larger brained animals could use their intelligence to find fruit more efficiently, which in turn provided more energy to fuel a larger brain.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
Clevinger, his long hair brained into pigtails, allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2022
At least there’s nothing pointy on the Steam Deck, unlike some of the book corners I’ve brained myself with over the years.
From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022
No, it was meant to determine if you were right brained or left brained, usually connoted by handedness.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The second was a deep gully, but so choked with rubble that after nearly braining myself I desisted.
From Prester John by John Buchan
Early after breakfast on that morning,—that morning on which Tappitt had for a moment thought of braining Luke Rowan with the poker,—Mrs. Ray started from the cottage on her mission into Baslehurst.
From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
It was something that they prevented the mace of chivalry from utterly braining humankind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
"Théo is at home—he went to tell his mother," Joyselle said, nearly braining an old lady with his violin-case as he swung round to speak.
From The Halo by B. Martin Justice
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