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In Memoriam: Andrew Lakoff, influential anthropologist of risk, science and society (opens the original)
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Andrew Lakoff, an influential anthropologist whose research explored how science and technology shape the way people understand themselves and societies prepare for an uncertain future, died July 7 from glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. He was 56. Lakoff was a professor of sociology and anthropology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. His wide-ranging scholarship encompassed psychiatry, pharmaceuticals, public health, pandemics and emergency preparedness. He author
USC students explore conservation careers on Catalina Island (opens the original)
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Over lunch at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island, JD Black found himself talking about reptiles and amphibians with a conservation professional. Black, who is pursuing a communication major at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism along with a minor in psychology from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, was working as a summer education intern when a team from the Catalina Island Conservancy visited campus. As he spoke with them about
How the stomach helps the brain form memories (opens the original)
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When French writer Marcel Proust famously recalled his childhood from the taste of a Madeline cookie, his stomach may have done some of the work. We generally associate our memories almost exclusively with the brain, which we imagine both forms and stores them. New research led by Scott Kanoski, professor of biological sciences at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has found that our gut may also play an important role in helping us to remember experiences, especially those
Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures (opens the original)
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“Turn off that TV, it’ll rot your brain!” has been a household refrain for decades. While “rot” might be too strong a term, researchers are finding that the overall sentiment could have some merit. A study published recently in Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association revealed that those who reported watching TV “very often” in midlife later exhibited reduced volume in areas of the brain associated with memory, smaller frontal and occipital lobes, and areas of damage in t
Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the Sun? (opens the original)
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Why is Venus the hottest planet, whereas Mercury is closer to the Sun? — Sejal M., age 7, Bangalore, India When the solar system had just formed, 4.5 billion years ago, Venus was probably a tropical paradise. Oceans of water likely covered its surface, and puffy clouds dotted its skies. At that time, Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, was undoubtedly the hottest planet in the solar system. But then the Sun grew brighter, and a series of events known as a runaway greenhouse effect caused Ven
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