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Time out for neurons

ES cells clean house M alin Hernebring, Thomas Nyström (Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden), and colleagues fi nd that mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells do some spring cleaning during differentiation to rid themselves of protein damage. Protein damage is absent in young tissue but accumulates with age. The authors wondered what prevents run-down proteins from being passed via the germline to a...

Technology Use: Time-In or Time-Out

This paper investigates evolving technology use by applying the distinction of time-in and time-out usage. This distinction describes how uses of technology within the life-world (i.e. the ordinary, the un-reflected) can be punctuated by time-out use when a user takes out time to consciously use or reflect on a medium. Data was collected through a longitudinal field study involving focus groups...

Neuropsychology: Time Out of Mind

We have always known that some form of clock is needed to measure time. It now seems that a variety of different neural clocks are involved in determining our temporal perceptions, some specialised for shorter and some for longer durations.

Time Out for Station Identification