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Sam Kean
Sam Kean
American Writer
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If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes another stem cell. If the split is unequal, neurons form prematurely. Sam Kean
Daughter More More Or Less Both Divide Neurons Stem Stem Cell Split Stem Cells Look Another Equally Becomes Unequal Cell Same Cells Form Prematurely Less Each Each One
What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together. Sam Kean
Work Together Out Find Physical Mental Part Idea Also How Brain Work Together Figure Fascinating
A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality. Sam Kean
You Personality Walk Long Important Severe Kind Vital Pretty Through Self Part Unusual Forefront Brain Rod Very Iron Often Straight Your Suffer Injuries Away Injury Necessarily Biological
We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do. Sam Kean
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve. Sam Kean
Mind Other Sieve Dates Through Like Names Without Falls Information Straight
Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells. Sam Kean
Most Junk Cells Organisms Less Loads
Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty. Sam Kean
Heart Diabetes Looking Those Mutations Component Bleak Clearly Genes Genetic Come Look Empty Scientists Heart Disease Up Survey Disease Common Patients Which Things
While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers. Sam Kean
Knowledge Field Increasing Our Cases Tempting Take Clear Genetics Make Does Always Answers Provide Celebrity Precision While Amplified
It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them. Sam Kean
Work Sometimes About Environment Genes Genetic Talk Until Also Without Discussing Trait Often Which Them Meaningless Awakens Appears
All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions. Sam Kean
Parents Few Every Other Those Mutations Born Gene Fact Could Pick Well Up Human In Fact Human Beings Beings Slack Lethal Dozens Copies Two
No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets. Sam Kean
Me Crazy People Shine Skin Babies Telling Carrying About Pockets Mercury Like Tales Make Around Does Mothers Gets Stories Them Then Element Floors Rubbing
On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction. Sam Kean
You Yourself Pure Atoms Diamond Nothing Down Every Scale Inside See Direction Perfect Another Stood Pattern Billions Carbon Shrunk Bonded
Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds. Sam Kean
Diamond Way Neighbor Table Perfect Periodic Impression Matrix Same Fewer Quite Form Which Means Electron Carbon Four Bonds
The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality. Sam Kean
History Quality Money Other Rarity Gems Similar More Vary Color Factors Price Because Diamonds Greatly Than Fetch Blue Often Depending Size Whether Cut Including
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next. Sam Kean
Natural Ending Atoms Type Outer Table Pointing Points Noble Shell Turning Next Turning Points Creating Special Electron Fill Element Row Gas Gases
Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light. Sam Kean
Positive Strong Light Negative Atoms Big Speed Speeds Consist Flying Outside Feel Around Close Get Closest Tug Bigger Whip Really Electron
Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels. Sam Kean
Doctors Gentleman Harmless Despite Table Seems Fact Soothe Like Overall Most Periodic Ulcer Scoundrels In Fact Company Element Among Prescribe Keeps Medicinal
Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it. Sam Kean
Day People Dark Light Seen Giving Power Never Had Like Pierre Without Source Years Discovered Off Any Anything Apparent Popular Element Marie
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king. Sam Kean
Future Writing Will King Energy Ran Table About Over Periodic Question Replace Which While Theme Element Elements Carbon
Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy. Sam Kean
Energy Ways Deliver New Learned Scientists Continue Tinker New Ways Different Store Different Elements Elements
Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table. Sam Kean
Daily Natural Light Atoms Single Every Our Table All-Around Atom Given Small Obscure Weighty Almost Over Periodic Around How Least Years Common Against Them Us Certain Body Your Your Body Many Element Lives Daily Lives Nearly Humans Incorporate
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