The brain waves originating from the striatum (red) and from the prefrontal cortex (blue) become synchronized when an animal learns to categorize different patterns of dots.The phenomenon of brain-wave synchronization likely precedes the changes in synapses, or connections between neurons, believed to underlie learning and long-term memory formation. That process, known as synaptic plasticity, is too time-consuming to account for [...]
Want to be one of thousands to join the revelry of the Beijing Color Run this year? Good for you. You may be able to have your cake and have it, too. Come join the "Off Color Run" of 2014. You will come close, oh so close, to being a color runner. You and your fellow Off Color friends will [...]
The photo might be from a couple of runs later… Sometime in April 23rd 2008… As night approached in Beijing it looked like a great evening to run. Fairly warm, not too polluted, somewhat clear, promising on all accounts. The Hares, Trixxxie and Dazed and Confused arrived early at the Rickshaw, ready to go, flour in hands. By 8:15, 11 [...]
Around 10 AM, May, 17th. At Tim’s Texas bar, nearly 40 Hash physiolaters in high spirits head for Huailai county of Hebei province for a Boxer Hashing directed by Boxer GM, Bubba Spook, and there, Red Snatcher’s hometown as well. After taking about 2 hours on a limo bus to be there, on passing a village, 3 hares get on [...]
Red Snatcher leads her Boxer Hash friends to her Hebei home village in Huailai County—to her pride (or shame-- forever losing face to her kinfolk). We run and walk where Little Red Snatcher (pictured above, at 4 months) roamed the fields, hills, dales, roads, and alleys. Country air, country food, country music, and country beer for all! [list type="icon-check-empty"] Who: [...]