She lay very still, her heart pounding, her body bathed in sweat and the smell of him, her brain blank, oblivious of her surroundings.

NEWYORKER: Pumpkin Head

The new girl was puzzled: why was her brain so blank?

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

The ability to learn is simply the conditioning of the brain to recognize cause and (blank).

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