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...pediatrician before I became a neuroscientist. As a pediatrician, I was impressed by how much plasticity there really must be in the human brain. Pediatricians know that damage to the infant brain doesn't have the same outcome as damage to the adult brain. If a newborn has a stroke, even in the cortex [an area important to higher intellectual functions], he or she may sustain it and develop quite normally. The exact same injury would put an adult in a wheelchair. I wondered if the source of the brain's apparent plasticity was at the level of the single...
...true," he says. "But we know what the rules of gravity are very well. It's very easy to calculate... the tidal effect of the obstetrician on a newborn baby is larger--because it's proportional to the cube of the distance and twice the mass--and nobody asks where that person was standing at the time of their birth...
After reading the revelations in the book Einstein's Daughter about the physicist's illegitimate child [HISTORY, Oct. 4], I felt it was tragic that Einstein chose to pursue his career plans and left others to care for his newborn daughter. I have always had great respect for Einstein's brilliant scientific accomplishments. Sadly, his character flaws were just as enormous as his intellect was exceptional. Ultimately, proof of his selfish behavior will diminish Einstein's legacy. Instead, he will become a prime example of how men can master difficult branches of knowledge but lack the wisdom to love their...
...Jesse was determined to become a guinea pig. "It made him feel good as a person," says his father Paul. "He said, 'Hey, this may be good for me, and I'll be helping newborn infants.' You know teenagers. They think they're going to live forever...
BREAST IS BEST Breast milk not only contains the best nutrition for a newborn. Exclusive breast feeding for three to five months also reduces the risk of a child's later gaining too much weight, a study last week in the British Medical Journal shows. Children of normal weight tend to stay that way as adults, so prolonged breast feeding may reduce the long-term risks of heart disease and other weight-related ailments...