Author: Robert Coontz (Administrator)

Remember Your Brain!

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

Details below the fold.

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.

Ötzi’s Bunny Variations

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.

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.

March Discussion Thread Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread

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

March 2007 “Happy Birthday” Thread

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.