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Beauty & Brains: Arielle Johnson
I’m pretty sure that our readers here at HipHopDX have a lot more to do than stare at sexy girls on a computer screen (there have to be some outside your house, right?), but as we creep into the halfway mark of summer, Beauty & Brains wants to give you an incentive to at least go out on the hunt with the visual eye candy of Arielle Johnson.
The youngling, at only 20-years-old, is building her credentials straight out of Virginia, U.S.A. With the eye-catching 36-26-36 frame, this chocolate drop beauty has her own powers with a sexy pair of lookers… eyes, that is, fellas! While the home known for lovers gets their heart rate increased by Ms. Johnson, Beauty & Brains wants you to sit down and entertain yourself as the buxom Aquarius talks about unexpected compliments, Obama and why poverty is one of the first things to go under the new administration.
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Are teenage brains really different?
Many parents are convinced that the brains of their teenage offspring are different than those of children and adults. New data confirms that this is the case. An article by Jay N. Giedd, MD, of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), published in the April 2008 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health describes how brain changes in the adolescent brain impact cognition, emotion and behavior.
Dr. Giedd reviews the results from the NIMH Longitudinal Brain Imaging Project. This study and others indicate that gray matter increases in volume until approximately the early teens and then decreases until old age. Pinning down these differences in a rigorous way had been elusive until MRI was developed, offering the capacity to provide extremely accurate quantifications of brain anatomy and physiology without the use of ionizing radiation.
Writing in the article, Dr. Giedd comments, “Adolescence is a time of substantial neurobiological and behavioral change, but the teen brain is not a broken or defective adult brain. The adaptive potential of the overproduction/selective elimination process, increased connectivity and integration of disparate brain functions, changing reward systems and frontal/limbic balance, and the accompanying behaviors of separation from family of origin, increased risk taking, and increased sensation seeking have been highly adaptive in our past and may be so in our future. These changes and the enormous plasticity of the teen brain make adolescence a time of great risk and great opportunity.”
In an accompanying editorial, Elizabeth R. McAnarney MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, comments, “Finally neuroscientists are able to go under the ‘…leathery membrane, surrounded by a protective moat of fluid, and completely encased in bone…’ to provide new insights into brain development. Changes in the brain during childhood and adolescent development that are being documented through exquisite imaging by Giedd and others hold the promise for the development of hypotheses about the potential origins of behaviors that we have observed clinically for years….”
“Novelty seeking/sensation seeking and risk taking,” Dr. McAnarney continues, “is the basis for considerable growth during adolescence, as well as for the seemingly reckless behavior of some adolescents. Novelty seeking/sensation seeking and risk taking are topics of growing interest as adolescent brain development is defined better and as morbidity from adolescent risk taking mounts….The implication of our growing knowledge of brain–behavior mechanisms of adolescent conditions should provide insights into the risk of particular adolescents for morbidity and mortality. Preliminary data are promising so that as we begin to understand the complexity of and specificity of each of these conditions, we shall be able to diagnose and treat conditions earlier.”
The NIMH Longitudinal Brain Imaging Project began in 1989. Participants visit the NIMH at approximately two-year intervals for brain imaging, neuropsychological and behavioral assessment and collection of DNA. As of September 2007, approximately 5000 scans from 2000 subjects have been acquired. Of these, 387 subjects, aged 3 to 27 years, have remained free of any psychopathology and serve as the models for typical brain development.
Three themes have emerged from this and other studies in this new era of adolescent neuroscience. The first is functional and structural increases in connectivity and integrative processing as distributed brain modules become more and more integrated. Using a literary metaphor, maturation would not be the addition of new letters but rather of combining earlier formed letters into words, and then words into sentences and then sentences into paragraphs. Many parents are convinced that the brains of their teenage offspring are different than those of children and adults. New data confir... more -
Scientists: humans and machines will merge in as little as two decades
From the report: By the 2030s humans will become more non-biological than biological, capable of uploading our minds onto the Internet, living in various virtual worlds and even avoiding aging and evading death.
In the 2040s, [Scientist Ray] Kurzweil predicts non-biological intelligence will be billions of times better than the biological intelligence humans have today, possibly rendering our present brains as obsolete. From the report: By the 2030s humans will become more non-biological than biological, capable of uploading our minds onto the Interne... more -
Kandi Beauty & Brains
One of my favorite songs as a kid was Cameo’s “Candy,” song. For the most part, it was because lead singer, Larry Blackmon, had a funny voice. But when you’re five-years-old and you’re hearing a song about your favorite food, it’s hard not to take notice. The same can be said for Kandice “Kandi” Courseault. The SoCal sexy siren has eyes that just make you wish for a taste of her Hershey’s kisses.
As Ms. Courseault continues to build her resumé, the 28-year-old beauty uses her spare time to find personal reflection in all things sexy. Her first interview with Beauty & Brains certainly won’t be the last you hear from the beautiful Leo. As she sits down with us, your personal sweet tooth talks about why you don’t need brains to model, how she would get “closer” to Bill Gates and how her “Michael Jackson” experience is coming very soon! One of my favorite songs as a kid was Cameo’s “Candy,” song. For the most part, it was because lead singer, Larry Blackmon, had a funn... more -
My brain lights up when you tell me I'm beautiful!
Researchers have mapped the brain regions that process social standing and money rewards, yielding new insights that they said will aid understanding of the basis of social behaviors. The findings were recently published in the journal Neuron. In one paper, Norihiro Sadato and colleagues found that making money and making a reputation engage much of the same reward circuitry in the brain - a finding that they say yields insight into what drives complex social behaviors. In the other paper, Caroline Zink and colleagues mapped brain regions that are active when a person is processing information on social status. The researchers said their findings could yield insight into why social status can so profoundly affect behavior and health. Researchers have mapped the brain regions that process social standing and money rewards, yielding new insights that they said will ai... more
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Porscha Coleman "Beauty & Brains"
There are some people who work hard and plenty of those who hardly work. 22-year-old, Porscha Coleman is clearly the exception to the rule. Starting out in the game as an extra next to Meagan Good in the Ice Cube-penned classic, Friday, the beautiful Cancer marched on a campaign to capture your attention.
From the lil’-film-that-could, Coleman – who has trained under Lynn Marks and Stacy Pianko – increased her resume with appearances next to Lloyd Banks (“On Fire”), Dem Franchise Boys (“Oh, I Think They Like Me – Remix”) and Nick Cannon. With hypnotizing hips, lips and dips that have made audience and acts like Yung Berg fall for this “sexy lady,” Ms. Porscha Coleman sits with Beauty & Brains to talk about stealing the spotlight, how Three-6-Mafia added onto her career and why an album is the next plan on her road to world domination.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/brains-beauty/id.65 There are some people who work hard and plenty of those who hardly work. 22-year-old, Porscha Coleman is clearly the exception to the ... more -
Nerds might live longer
Yet another reason to stay in school kids!
Anthropologist say big brains help up live longer. Woohooo!
Big headed people around the world rejoice! Woo HOO!
More after the jump .... ! Yet another reason to stay in school kids! Anthropologist say big brains help up live longer. Woohooo! ... more -
Jayonna Fabro
A lot of changes have been made over the course of HipHopDX.com’s existence.
From a changing of the editorial guard to a revamping of the site, DX has continued to push the limits of what an online ‘zine can accomplish when you have the right parts working all the right angles. Beauty & Brains has been able to satisfy your love (or lust) of women, but haven’t made quite the leap to showcase the variety of women that would appease your visual appetite.
Enter Jayonna Fabro.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/brains-beauty/id.64 A lot of changes have been made over the course of HipHopDX.com’s existence. ... more -
Human version 2.0
This BBC documentary might shake you up a little. It overlays the quest to understand the human brain with the remarkable advances happening in computing power to pinpoint a year (2029) at which we will be able to "download" our minds onto computers. This BBC documentary might shake you up a little. It overlays the quest to understand the human brain with the remarkable advances hap... more
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Man Lives Normal Life With Egg Sized Brain
French doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite normal life but with an extraordinarily tiny brain. French doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite normal life but with an extraordinarily t... more
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Close Your Eyes and Listen
That's what our brains do, anyways. According to this study, our brains divert activity from the visual receptors when we're listening to music and more complex sounds.
"Imagine the difference between listening to someone talk in a quiet room, and that same discussion in a noisy room - you don't see as much of what's going on in the noisy room."
That is so true... and so cool! Thanks brain! That's what our brains do, anyways. According to this study, our brains divert activity from the visual receptors when we're... more -
Brain-Cell Power
A culture of living and interconnected rat brain-cells in a petri dish, with inserted electrodes connecting it to a computer, has been taught to pilot an F-22 fighter plane in a simulator. Rat brain-cells! I wonder if cultures of the brain-cells of different species will manifest different talents, capacities and abilities... A culture of living and interconnected rat brain-cells in a petri dish, with inserted electrodes connecting it to a computer, has been... more
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SF Zombie FlashMob
... They're comin 2 getcha. Shot & edited by Mark Oltz Happy Halloween!
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