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Just as important as protecting healthy neurons is repairing or replacing nerve cells that have already been damaged. The body produces a whole bath of trophic-or growth-factors, that help neurons and other cells develop. If the brains of Parkinson’s patients could be fortified with additional trophic doses, many scientists believe, damaged neurons might be reawakened or repaired. While there is some thought in the medical community about engineering genes to churn out the substances, the pharmaceutical industry is taking a more direct approach...
...Bathtubs. The real kind, footed and very deep, preferably with a skylight and ubiquitous bottles of Mr. Bubble. Obscure books to read in the bath (e.g. History of Troy). These are infinitely preferable to the flagging water pressure and occasional infestations of fourth-floor showers. The latter, however, are much better for productivity: It is impossible to take a bubble bath in less than forty-five minutes...
...cheese and sausage, two kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar, appropriate spices, pots and pans of all sizes and appropriate machinery. Second, the slow and deliberate assembly (see #4). Finally, the open-ended consumption of the meal: half-an-omelette, walk the dog, read the paper, crepe, bubble bath, write a paper, walk the dog, hot chocolate with steamed milk, write column...
...more than 3.5 billion years. Why should lakes be important on a planet that we already knew had rivers and seas? Because the newly discovered formations precisely resemble the sedimentary depressions that have yielded some of Earth's richest fossil lodes. If life once thrived in the relatively warm bath of Mars' early lakes, these geological layer cakes are where we are most likely to find its remains...
...blow whenever a line or bit of business crossed the line. He remained old-fashioned that way, as well as in his stubborn refusal, unlike Carson and almost everyone that followed, to do "savers" when a joke bombed. He might strip to his shorts onstage for an ice-water bath, but he never lost his dignity...