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Newsweek Voices – Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com Training Faulty Brains to Work Better New treatments may help schizophrenics. Whenever I speak to educators and interested laypeople about neuroplasticity—the ability of the adult brain to change in function and structure—one of the questions I often get is whether neuroplasticity can be tapped to treat truly devastating…

One way to keep up with your own tweets is to archive them in a blog that you dedicate to that purpose. I call mine TWEET WEEK and my entry for 8/22-9/2 is found here. After I post them, I tweet the tweets.

September 1, 2009 – The Washington Post Governor's race erupts over McDonnell's past viewsThe Virginia governor's race ignited Monday over Republican Robert F. McDonnell's 20-year-old graduate thesis: Democrats assailed him in e-mail blasts and interviews for what he wrote about working women, homosexuals and "fornicators," and McDonnell tried to explain his views to crucial moderate…

Creating a Facebook profile for the first time, Eric Heim hadn't expected something so serious. Hunched over his laptop, he had whipped through the social network Web site's questionnaire about his interests, favorite movies and relationship status, typing witty replies wherever possible. But when he reached the little blank box asking for his core beliefs,…

Steve Valdez says he was shocked when he was told he had to put his thumbprint on a check written on his wife's Bank of America check. Valdez says the check was written to him with the same address he has on his driver's license. Although he had two forms of identification both with pictures,…

"Biologist E. O. Wilson, professor emeritus at Harvard University, is a two-time Pulitzer-winning ant expert who helped develop theories of island biogeography, chemical ecology, and sociobiology. A leader in the modern environmental movement, Wilson has devoted his life to understanding how all forms of life are connected." via www.npr.org to READ MORE E.O. Wilson is…

Seniors Racking Up Credit Card Debt By Ty This is alarming to me… Seattle Times: WASHINGTON — Alice Smith thought she would live comfortably and quietly in her Hyattsville, Md., retirement community. Instead she’s fretfully dodging calls from her creditors. She owes more than $10,000 to four credit-card companies and more than $7,000 to a…

Special Report: SoCal Wildfires The rapidly spreading Station wildfire is threatening homes from Sunland to Altadena and has now blackened more than 100,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest. Also in danger, the Mt. Wilson Observatory, and a string of broadcast towers, including the transmission facilities for KCET. We're providing regular, televised updates on KCET.…

We celebrated New Scientist magazine's 50th birthday by asking some of science’s leading lights to explore the biggest questions of our time. You can find out what they had to say by following the links below. www.newscientist.com to read questions and answers Here is what happens when you ask a group of noted scientists to…

"All things being equal, people will do business with and refer business to those people they know, like and trust."-Bob Burg"A no-nonsense approach to building your business through relationships."-Jane Applegate, syndicated Los Angeles Times columnist www.burg.com to READ BLOG Bob points out why forgiveness not only makes sense, but how it is the only approach…