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NYTimes ScienceTimes: Mirrors and our brains, an off-label tactic against time, Ms mosquito, crowds in former wilderness labs, etc |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 11:53 am |
| Tags: science stories, health amp medicine stories, environment stories |
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The Tracker, as do many readers of the NYTimes, looks forward to reading pieces by Natalie Angier, who has the lead in the section today. With all those crazy ways to pile adjectives into novel forms, the loopy but thrilling usages, similes, asides, allusions, and rushing trains of thought tunneling through darkness, she makes anything interesting via sheer descriptive mastery. Her editor has to keep the leash tight, of course. This morning I thought I’d finally encountered something of hers that bores. Just to me, perhaps, and perhaps fascinating to you, but I was left mostly cold wading through her ruminations on things specular. She writes about mirrors, mainly as good tools for neurological studies. Shrinks and their allies use mirrors a lot, so do writers and so did creators of myths. Yawn… but ah ha, there is a gem of a section deep in the piece. She describes common failures of logic most people have if asked to describe what exactly is one’s own mirror [ Full article ] |
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