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When it comes to mental acuity, there is plenty of research to support changing your diet (fish, for example, is fab for your noggin), reducing stress and staying both socially engaged and physically fit. Scientists also know that it's good to give the brain a workout. Studies show that software can improve targeted brain operations like focusing, attention and peripheral vision. But what researchers don't know is whether pricey computer programs work better than an old-fashioned crossword puzzle...
...what should we make of this? For starters, self-reporting is not a reliable way to assess how well our brains are working. And slick marketing makes it hard to tell what's good from what's gimmicky. "There is not enough evidence that paying for a $100 fitness program gets you better results than a free game of chess or learning a new card game or bridge strategy, when it comes to improving your memory," says P. Murali Doraiswamy, a professor of psychiatry and geriatrics at Duke University and head of the school's new mental-fitness...
Neurobic Activity: What's good and what's gimmicky...
...threat to the homeland. Obama has vowed to improve intelligence sharing, but some experts are skeptical that the system can ever be fail-safe. "The next time, we may not have this many data points," says Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University. "It may never be this good again...
...back the cause of equality in the political sphere by decades." Clinton and Palin suffered brutal personal attacks during their campaigns, venom that Kornblut ascribes to sexism. Won over by Barack Obama, young women failed to appreciate the historic nature of Clinton's quest. Sarah Palin's good looks, meanwhile, "contributed to the narrative of her as an idiotic pawn." Still, the author's in-depth interviews with powerful female politicians like Nancy Pelosi, Claire McCaskill and Janet Napolitano show that the distaff political troops are on the move...