dsgood has found some good ones today

Where the brain makes sense of speech

The GABAA receptor -- a memory bane?

Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians

Parents show bias in sibling rivalry, says study

Jingle bells not merry for tone-deaf individuals -- "[T]one-deaf or amusic individuals have more grey matter in specific regions of the brain related to processing musical pitch, namely the right interior frontal gyrus and the right auditory cortex, as compared to those who are musically intact."

Twins study shows genetic basis for face and place recognition -- "New evidence suggests our brains are hardwired before birth to recognize faces and places. But in contrast, the neural circuitry we use to recognize words develops mainly as a result of experience."

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I'm not usually one for long poems. But this one by Albert Goldbarth is noteworthy.