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It’s International Brain Awareness Week! How shall we celebrate?

This press release arrived this morning in Robert’s e-mail. Bet you wondered where all those “official” theme weeks and months came from. Thought-provoking, isn’t it?

Greetings-
International Brain Awareness Week® is this week, March 12-18. Coordinated by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, it will be celebrated with public events in more than 69 countries.

Brain Awareness Week may be a useful framework for your upcoming stories on brain-related subjects – such as body clocks, hormones, infant development, memory, and more. It may also be an opportunity to profile neuroscientists who are science communicators. Members of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives are just that; the Dana Alliance is a nonprofit organization of 260 leading neuroscientists committed to advancing public awareness of the brain. We would be happy to connect you with local experts.
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*Brain Awareness Week® is a federally registered mark of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives is a nonprofit organization of 260 leading neuroscientists, including ten Nobel laureates, committed to advancing public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research. It is supported by the Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization with particular interests in neuroscience, immunology, and arts education.

In absentia, alas. The author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books (b. 11 March 1952, d. 11 May 2001) would have been 55 years old today. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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*Middle English for “quiet madness.”

This thread is slightly hard to explain. To get the hang of it, see the last installment, here.

Two from Dracasting:

1. Alien HPB

2. Untitled

“Sad Bunny” by Red-tailed HAWK

By popular request. We tried to find a way to make this thread read from right to left, but no dice.

By popular request. We’re not sure how you’ll discuss this topic without pictures, but we’re willing to be convinced.

Go on — get it out of your system.

With a movie and the last book coming out this summer, people are bound to be talking about it all over the Web. Here’s MuseBlog’s contribution to the discussion.

We keep coming back to this topic. In a series of threads last year, MBers discussed their own religions as well as many others. Now FrigidSymphony has requested a (so to speak) revival. Here you are.

You can’t improve on perfection, but you can try. Here are some images Ötzi created in a brief time out from her crushing homework load.

Psychopath bunny.

Picasso bunny.

French bunny.

Punk bunny.

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Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.

Current topic:
Pet peeves
Death
Anorexia, recovering from
Wikipedia article about Muse
Home videos
Eclipses
Race? or Guantanamo Bay?
Naruto
Archaeology/Paleoanthropology/Paleontology

Known Muser and MuseBlogger birthdays this month:

03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995 – color?)
03-04 emmatheduck’s birthday (1993 – purple)
03-07 Arianhrod of Orkney’s birthday
03-13 Magus’s birthday (1992)
03-21 M & M’s birthday (year? – rainbow)
03-22 Violetfire’s birthday (1994 – violet)
03-23 MontgomeryGurl’s birthday (1991 – blue, sky or light)
03-25 Bellatrix LeStrange (the MuseBlogger’s)Necromancer’s birthday
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991 – scarlet, deep purple, and/or gold or silver, or tie-dye)
03-29 Luna the Lovely (formerly Michelle W.)’s birthday (1990 – pink + light blue)
03-30 kokopellic (gradster1?)’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 23 and July 23, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 27 and October 27, 1990.

New on the blog? Confused? Step right in. Veteran MuseBloggers will do their best to make you feel at home.

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog).

This discussion threatens to derandomize the random thread. Here’s a place to conduct it, for those who want to.

We haven’t done this in almost a year. By special request of Sweet Melpomene, who needs to vent.

We’re not sure what’s going on — some glitch with the servers at our host company. For whatever reason, MuseBlog has been only intermittently available today, and it’s not clear that we’re out of the woods yet. Sorry!

Warning! Certain to contain spoilers.

They’re starting to arrive. Let us know when yours does.

By popular, or at least repeated, request.

We’ve been creating a lot of new threads lately, so this will be the last one for a few days unless something absolutely irresistible comes up.

This one looks likely to close out the month, but you never know.

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By now, several of you have become proud (we hope) possessors of items from Musery Loves Company. We’re curious. When you wear your Musewear in public, do you get any…you know, reactions? Comments? Funny looks? (More than usual, we mean.) What does it feel like to be the public face of the Kokonspiracy?