“Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed less shrinkage in the hippocampus region of patients’ brains in the Alzheimer’s patients with higher fitness scores. In Alzheimer’s the hippocampus is one of the first parts of the brain to suffer damage. Exercise and physical fitness have been shown to slow age-related brain cell death in healthy older adults.”
Tag: 07.27.08
Screen Actors Hold Firm On Digital Media Issues
“Jurisdiction and fair compensation for new media is a “core principle” of the guild, according to the resolution, approved by a 68-0 margin. The nature and timing of the board resolution — establishing new media as a bargaining priority despite the fact that the talks have broken down — also sends that signal that it is unlikely that the studios’ final offer will be brought before SAG’s membership anytime soon.”
At 88, After 50 Books, Doris Lessing Is Done
I have run out of energy completely. I have ideas that I will probably never write now. You know, I have written quite a lot, so it is not really enough to weep over.
Plugging Away – More Authors Hit The Road
“In recent years, a growing number of writers, from the best-selling to the less so, have hit the rubber-chicken circuit, speaking at colleges and businesses, chambers of commerce, trade fairs and medical conventions. While a midlist novelist might ask, though not necessarily get, $2,500 per appearance, a superstar presidential historian might command $40,000. And some best-selling authors charge double that.”
Elitism – Simply The Best
“The arts are both elitist and non-elitist, and so is popular culture. The arts are seen as for the select few — too expensive, too inaccessible, too chichi for the general public devoted to movies, pop music, television and sports. In fact, the reverse can just as easily be true.”
Beijing’s Disappearing Historic Center
“The explosion of construction activity that has transformed Beijing into a modern metropolis over the past decade also turned many of its historical neighborhoods — known for their narrow alleyways, or hutongs — into rubble.”