What Are You Going to Conquer with the Spear?

What Are You Going to Conquer with the Spear?

Almost everyone in China knows this story, even elementary school pupils: Once upon a time, there was a weapon salesman claiming with confidence to one crowd that all his spears were capable of piercing every shield that existed in the world, then he turned around and told the other crowd mysteriously that all his shields were not penetrable. A bystander who heard both claims asked him, “How ab...

What you know can influence what you are going to know (especially for older adults)

Stimuli related to an individual's knowledge/experience are often more memorable than abstract stimuli, particularly for older adults. This has been found when material that is congruent with knowledge is contrasted with material that is incongruent with knowledge, but there is little research on a possible graded effect of congruency. The present study manipulated the degree of congruency of s...

Where do you come from and what are you going to become, reactive astrocyte?

Reactive astrogliosis is the process by which astrocytes respond to central nervous system injury or disease. The origin of these cells is under debate. Herein, we contribute to comments regarding our recent report and discuss the context of our findings. One of the main goals in the field of neuroscience is to understand the cellular basis and molecular pathways that underlie injury and diseas...

Who Are You Going to Vote For?

You're not going to give me the umbrella, are you?

of distraction. For example, one swallower lacerated his pharynx when trying to swallow a curved sabre, a second lacerated his oesophagus and developed pleurisy after being distracted by a misbehaving macaw on his shoulder, and a belly dancer suffered a major haemorrhage when a bystander pushed dollar bills into her belt causing three blades in her oesophagus to scissor. Of the 12 cases of prob...