But football is chess, played with real pieces that try to knock each other's brains out.
One must be careful that the wind in one's hair doesn't blow one's brains out.
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With all of the open source social media tools now available, this is easier than I expected: I ask a question on LinkedIn and get an answer from an expert (instead of spending five hours googling my brains out).
As contentious as their relationship has been, they must understand at this point that they are the two big winners in mobile and have more to gain by consolidating that position than in continuing to bash each others brains out.
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But Scruggs just spent a week getting his brains beaten out at the wheel of his 40-foot racing sloop, Gunsmoke, in the waters around Key West, Fla.
"By leaving these rats you will be condemning millions of young seabirds to die a pretty terrible death, having their brains eaten out by rats in perpetuity, " he said.
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Having shown that the stem cells worked in healthy mouse brains, Dr Zhu tried them out on injured mouse brains.
Tsinghua University, China's top tech school, churns out brains--and business ideas.
This is where the non participants in technology fail us on both sides, not enough brains to figure out how to regulate and secondly the lack of motivation to learn about what goes on behind the scenes.
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How much should humans expect to be paid for renting out their brains in this way?
Turns out, our brains are only capable of focusing intensely in shorter bursts.
"In the past we hired the best brains and let them figure out what to do, " says Arun Netravali, an electrical engineer who took the top job at Bell Labs in October.
Year upon year of slowing down the action in their heads, of training their brains to take the emotion out of the multiple thousands of split-second decisions they make every time they get in the car, tends to lend them a languid air when not in action.
In his new book Mr Gazzaniga uses animal studies to argue that the brain is shaped by the tasks before it, pointing out that the brains of New World carnivorous bats are more similar to those of Old World carnivorous bats than they are to New World fruit bats, despite these being their closer cousins.
Maybe our brains work as much to tune out reality as they work to tune us into it.
This means the same scanning system can be used to find out more about the brains of the sickest and smallest newborn babies, he says.
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Companies establish matrix-management systems to deal with globalisation, appoint task-forces to examine new technologies, and add ever longer meetings until employees' brains try to gnaw their way out of their skulls.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) admitted on Thursday that a mix-up at the research laboratory meant tests had been carried out on cows' brains and not sheep brains.
They discovered that when people are offered an unfair split, a primal part of their brains known as the anterior insula sends out signals of disgust and anger.
But we suspect there's an even better option out there, tucked away in the brains of our commenters.
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The models of the sensory systems will run on a cluster of powerful graphics cards that can carry out the calculations needed to simulate bee brains.
Likewise, investors that tip the scale in favor of guts over brains take on excessive risk without a rational, thought out plan.
Five years after Parliament agreed suspect cattle parts (brains, spinal cords and other offal) should be kept out of the human food chain, beef carcasses ready for the butchers' shops were found with the offal still in place.
Being the alleged brains of the operation, Keshishyan kept the collected funds and doled out cuts to his conspirators.
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"We wrack our brains every year for crazy cliffhangers and we're trying to figure out how to top ourselves, " she says.
Without as much chemical lubrication, older brains begin failing to parse sounds or parts of conversations as they come tumbling out.
According to a new study by a team at UCLA, older brains have differing abilities to gauge troubling situations and may be less prone to screen out swindlers.
"In a lot of cases where students are being silly or stupid or are just using their 17-year-old teenage brains, school officials should decide, let's not punish you but figure out how we teach you about what you did wrong, " she said.
Collaborating with colleagues in the U.S. in the mid-1990s, the Terlings Park researchers were the first to show that substance P might play a role in depression, when they noticed that guinea pigs cried out in alarm when compounds similar to substance P were injected into their brains.
The most bizarre part to me isn't that Samsung is willing to fork out ungodly amounts of currency in order to sear the term "Galaxy" onto the brains of every human alive -- it's that the outfit's North American marketing partners are actually stellar.
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