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Braer The Braer Tanker ran aground off Shetland, Scotland. The weather was extremely rough, due to the time of year, so this - coupled with the fact that the oil was not thick - ensured that the consequences of the spill were not as bad as they could have been.
Braeriach Braeriach is the third highest mountain in Scotland, surpassed only by Ben Nevis and Ben Macdui. It is the highest point in the western massif of the Cairngorms, separated from the central section (containing Ben Macdui and Cairn Gorm) by the pass of the Lairig Ghru.
Braess' paradox Braess' paradox, credited to the mathematician Dietrich Braess, states that adding extra capacity to a network, when the moving entities selfishly choose their route, can in some cases reduce overall performance. This is because the equilibrium of such a system is not necessarily optimal.
Braga Cathedral The Cathedral of Braga (Portuguese: SĂ© de Braga) is one of the most important monuments in the city of Braga, in Northern Portugal. Due to its long history and artistic significance it is also one of the most important buildings in the country.
Bragar Bragar is a crofting township or village on the West Side of the Isle of Lewis, neighboured by Shawbost to the south and Arnol to the north. Bragar features a distinctive whale-bone arch as well as a school, post office, ruined broch and a shore.
Bragarfull The bragarfull 'promise-cup' or bragafull 'best cup' or 'chieftain's cup' was in Norse culture a particular drinking from a cup or drinking horn on ceremonial occasions, often involving the swearing of oaths when the cup or horn was drunk by a chieftain or passed around and drunk by those assembled. The names are sometimes anglicized as bragarful and bragaful respectively.
Bragernes Bragernes is one of the central parts of the Norwegian city of Drammen. It is located on the northern side of the Drammenselva river, and contains the famous town square ("Bragernes Torg"), the town hall, the Drammen Theatre, Drammen park and most of the shopping and nightlife in Drammen.
Bragg (crater) Bragg is an ancient lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the northwest limb. This formation has been heavily eroded and reshaped by subsequent impacts, leaving an irregular depression in the surface.
Bragg diffraction The Bragg formulation of X-ray diffraction (also referred to as Bragg diffraction) was first proposed by William Lawrence Bragg and William Henry Bragg in 1913 in response to their discovery that crystalline solids produced surprising patterns of reflected X-rays (in contrast to that of, say, a liquid). They found that in these crystals, for certain specific wavelengths and incident angles, intense peaks of reflected radiation (known as Bragg peaks) were produced.
Bragg Peak When a fast charged particle moves through matter, it ionizes particles and deposits a dose along its path. A peak occurs because the interaction cross section increases as the charged particle's energy decreases.
Bragg, Texas Bragg, Texas is a ghost town that once flourished in the early 1900’s in the Big Thicket forest area in southeast Texas. Sometimes referred to as "Bragg Station", this small community lies ten miles west of Kountze, Texas in Hardin County.
Braggin' Rights Established in 1980, Braggin' Rights (known for sponsorship reasons as Busch Braggin' Rights) has been the annual college basketball contest between the University of Illinois Fighting Illini of the Big Ten Conference and the University of Missouri Tigers of the Big 12 Conference.
Braggo Roth Robert "Braggo" Roth (August 28, 1892 - September 11, 1936) is a former professional baseball player. He was an outfielder over parts of 8 seasons with the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, and New York Yankees.
Bragi Boddason In his Edda Snorri Sturluson quotes many stanzas attributed to Bragi Boddason the old (Bragi Boddason inn gamli), a court poet who served several Swedish kings, Ragnar Lodbrok, Östen Beli and Björn at Hauge who reigned in the first half of the ninth century. This Bragi was reckoned as the first skaldic poet, and was certainly the earliest skaldic poet then remembered by name whose verse survived in memory.
Braguinha (composer) Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga (March 29 1907 – December 24 2006), commonly known as Braguinha ("Little Braga") or João de Barro ("the Hornero"), was a Brazilian songwriter and occasional singer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he lived all his life.
Brahim Dahane Brahim Dahane is a Sahrawi human rights activist and President of the ASVDH, a banned human rights organization. Born in 1965, he lives in El Aaiun, in the parts of Western Sahara controlled by Morocco, where he is the manager of an Internet café.
Brahma Brahma (written Brahmā in IAST) (Devanagari ब्रह्मा, pronounced as ) is the Hindu god (deva) of creation, and one of the Hindu Trinity - Trimurti, the others being Vishnu and Shiva. He is not to be confused with the Supreme Cosmic Spirit of Hindu philosophy known as 'Brahman' (the root of both words is the same).
Brahma (beer) Brahma is a Brazilian beer, originally made by the Companhia Cervejaria Brahma which was founded in 1888. The brands are now owned by the Company InBev; formed by a merger between Companhia de Bebidas das Américas AmBev; and Interbrew.
Brahma (chicken) Brahmas are an Asiatic breed of chicken, originating in the Brahmaputra region in India where they were known as "Gray Chittagongs". Their heritage is unclear, but they're are assumed to be closely related to the Jungle Fowl (Gallus Gigantus) and the Cochin chicken.
Brahma Dharma Brahma Dharma was a religion that was initiated by Gurudev Kalicharan Brahma in the early 20th century in Dhubri District of Assam among the Bodo people under the influence of the teachings of the mystic Param Hans Sibnarayan and assisted by Rupnath Brahma. The religion tried to remove some of the traditional customs of Bodo society and reform it.
Brahma Chellaney Brahma Chellaney is Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, an independent, privately funded think-tank. He is also a Member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the Foreign Minister of India.
Brahma Samhita The Brahma Samhita is a Sanskrit text, comprising of prayers believed to be spoken by Brahma to Krishna at the beginning of creation. It is revered within Gaudiya Vaishnavism, whose founder called Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, re-discovered a part of the work when visiting a temple in the Kerala, Southern India in the 16th Century which had previously been lost for many centuries.
Brahma Sutras The Brahma sūtras, also called Vedānta Sūtras, constitute the Nyāya prasthāna, the logical starting point of the Vedānta philosophy (Nyāya = logic/order). No study of Vedānta is considered complete without a close examination of the Prasthāna Traya, the texts that stand as the three starting points.
Brahma Vaivarta Purana Brahma Vaivart Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text, is divided into four parts. First part describes the creation of the universe and all beings, the second part relates to description and histories of different goddesses.
Brahmabandhab Upadhyay Brahmobandab Upadhyaya was a Bengali Brahmin and nephew of the Indian freedom-fighter Kalicharan Banerjee who converted to Anglicanism. Upadhyaya, after initially opposing his uncle's conversion, began to study under a Catholic priest and sought conversion, but being denied, sought and received baptism at the hands of an Anglican, after which he was conditionally re-baptized and admitted into the Catholic Church.
Brahmagiri Brahmagiri Hill is a peak in the Western Ghats of south India. This forms a part of the Brahmagiri hill range which is situated on the border between Wayanad District of Kerala state on the south and Kodagu (also known as Coorg) District in Karnataka on the north side.
Brahmagupta interpolation formula In trigonometry, the Brahmagupta interpolation formula is a special case of the Newton-Stirling interpolation formula, which calculates the values of sine at different intervals. The formula was developed by Brahmagupta in 665, which was later expanded by Newton and Stirling around a thousand years later to develop the more general Newton-Stirling interpolation formula.
Brahmagupta theorem Brahmagupta's theorem is a result in geometry. It states that if a cyclic quadrilateral has perpendicular diagonals, then the perpendicular to a side from the point of intersection of the diagonals always bisects the opposite side.
Brahmagupta's formula In geometry, Brahmagupta's formula finds the area of any quadrilateral given the lengths of the sides and some of their angles. In its most common form, it yields the area of quadrilaterals that can be inscribed in a circle.
Brahmagupta-Fibonacci identity In algebra, Brahmagupta's identity, also sometimes called Fibonacci's identity, says that the product of two numbers, each of which is a sum of two squares, is itself a sum of two squares (and in two different ways). In other words, the set of all sums of two squares is closed under multiplication.
Brahmajala Sutta The Brahmajala Sutta is the first sutta of 34 suttas in Digha Nikaya, the Long Discourses of Buddha. The name of the Sutta is inferred from the word 'Brahma' meaning the Perfect Wisdom, and 'Jala' meaning the 'Net-which-embraced-all-views'.
Brahman Brahman (Devanagari: ब्रह्म, Tamil: ப்ரம்மம் ) is the concept of the Godhead found in Hinduism. Brahman is the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all things in this universe.
Brahmananda Saraswati Brahmananda Saraswati (1870 - 1953) a Hindu Guru who was born into a Brahmin family in the village of Gana, near Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, India. At the age of nine he left home to wander and follow a spiritual path of renunciation.
Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi (August 26, 1852 – September 10, 1929) was an iconoclast sanyasi from Kerala, India who founded the Ananda Maha Sabha and Anandamatham (religion of bliss). An atheist, he denounced the idol worship, established religions and the existence of any god.
Brahmanippattu Brahmanippattu is a type of domestic devotional offering performed usually in connection with marriages. Women of Pushpaka Brahmin (Ambalavasi) caste Hindus called Brahmanis or Pushpinis alone are entitled to do it.
Brahmanism of the ancient Kambojas The Kambojas are an ancient people of the north-western Indian subcontinent (Central Asia). Frequently mentioned in ancient Indian texts (though not in the Rig Veda), the Kanbojas spoke an Indo-Iranian-derived language, an Indo-European family of languages.
Brahmaputra class frigate The Brahmaputra Class frigate (Type 16A) is a type of Guided Missile Frigate produced indigenously by India. A modification of the Godavari class frigate, the vessels have a displacement of 3850 tons and are 126 metres in length.
Brahmaputra Mail train bombing The Brahmaputra Mail train bombing was a terrorist attack on a train travelling in Lower Assam in Eastern India on 30 December 1996. The bomb totally wrecked three carriages of the train and derailed six more, killing at least 33 people.
Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests The Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of eastern India. The ecoregion covers 56,700 square kilometers (21,900 square miles), which encompasses the alluvial plain of the Brahmaputra River in India's Assam state.
Brahmasphutasiddhanta The main work of Brahmagupta, Brahmasphuta-siddhanta (The Opening of the Universe), written in the year 628, contains some remarkably advanced ideas, including a good understanding of the mathematical role of zero, rules for manipulating both negative and positive numbers, a method for computing square roots, methods of solving linear and some quadratic equations, and rules for summing series, Brahmagupta's identity, and the Brahmagupta’s theorem. The book was written completely in verse.
Brahmasthan A brahmasthan is a unique feature of Vedic architecture. Vedic architecture is based on Vastu Shastra, the Indian science of space and architecture designed to create environments that supports physical and spiritual health and prosperity.
Brahmastra In Hindu mythology, a Brahmastra (IAST: Brahmāstra, sanskrit: ब्रह्‍मास्‍त्र) is an arrow created by Brahma. One of the deadliest of weapons that a person can possess (as in Hindu Puranas), it is often speculated in the likeness of a nuclear weapon.
Brahmavidya The Indian philosophy of Advaita Vedanta explains that we suffer as a result of our avidya (ignorance) and maya (misconceived, misinterpreted views of Reality). According to this philosophy, acquiring the awareness of Brahmavidya (direct perception or awareness of Reality) alleviates this deep source of suffering.
Brahmavihara Brahmaviharā (Pali and Sanskrit) can be translated as Sublime Attitudes or Abodes of God. They form a sequence of Buddhist meditations recommended in the Pali Brahmavihara Sutta and the Sanskrit Brahmavihara Sutra.
Brahmbhatt Brahmbhatt (Devanāgarī ब्रह्म्भात्त) is an Indian surname and subcaste traditionally related to the Brahmin caste. Brahmbhatt is derived from the Sanskrit roots "Brahm", meaning "to grow, increase", and "Bhatt", meaning "priest" [http://www.
Brahmi numeral The Brahmi numerals are an indigenous Indian numeral system attested from the 3rd century BCE (somewhat later in the case of most of the tens). They are the direct graphic ancestors of the modern Indic and Hindu-Arabic numerals.
Brahmin gotra system The concept of Gotra was the first attempt among Brahmins to classify themselves among different groups. At the beginning, these gentes identified themselves by the names of eight rishis (Atri, Bharadwaja, Gautam, Jamadagni, Kashyapa, Vasishtha, Vishwamitra, and Agastya or Bhrigu; the first seven of these are often enumerated as Saptarishis).
Brahminical culture and Dravidians Tamils have been influenced by Brahminical culture since prehistorical times. Since the Sanskrit shruti texts of Hinduism are in Sanskrit, the sacred language of Hindu Dharma, the Tamil have become influenced by it.
Brahminy Blind Snake Brahminy Blind Snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus, also known as the Flowerpot Snake, Common Blind Snake, Island Blind Snake, or Hawaiian Blind Snake. The Brahminy Blind Snake is a harmless snake between 2½ to 6½ inches and resembles an earthworm in size and shape.
Brahmo Samaj Brahmo Samaj (Bengali ব্রাহ্ম সমাজ Bramho Shômaj) is a social and religious movement founded during the 19th century movement known as the Bengal Renaissance. "Brahmo Samaj" literally means the society of worshippers of One True God.
Brahmotsavam Brahmotsavam is an annual Hindu festival celebrated for nine days in the months of September and October at the Tirupathi Venkateshwara Temple. The celebration attracts pilgrims and tourists from all parts of the country.
Brahui language The Brahui (بروہی) or Bravi (براوِ) language, spoken by the Brahui, is mainly spoken in Balochistan, Pakistan, although it is also spoken in Afghanistan and Iran. The 2005 edition of Ethnologue reports some 2.
Brachiation Brachiation (to brachiate) means to move by swinging with the arms from one hold to another (like one maneuvers on an Overhead ladder); for example through a tree, using branches as holds. Many primates use this method to move through forest quickly.
Brachiopod Brachiopods (from Latin bracchium, arm + New Latin -poda, foot) make up one of the major animal phyla, Brachiopoda. Also known as lamp shells, they are sessile, two-shelled, marine animals with an external morphology resembling pelecypod mollusks (i.
Brachiosauridae Brachiosauridae is a family of dinosaurs, whose members are known as brachiosaurids. They were herbivorous quadrupeds with longer forelegs than hind legs (hence the name, Greek for arm lizard), and long, 45-degree angle necks.
Brachiosaurus Brachiosaurus (IPA: ) meaning "Arm Lizard", from the Greek brachion/βραχιων meaning 'arm' and sauros/σαυρος meaning 'lizard', was a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Jurassic Period. It was thus named because its forelimbs were longer than its hind limbs.
Brachistochrone curve [Brachistochrone curve, or curve of fastest descent, is the curve between two points that is covered in the least time by a body that starts at the first point with zero speed and passes down along the curve to the second point, under the action of constant gravity] and ignoring [[friction.
Bracht-Wachter bodies Bracht-Wachter bodies are yellow-white miliary spots in the myocardium, seen most commonly in florid cases of long-standing infective endocarditis. Histologically, these are collections of chronic inflammatory cells, mainly lymphocytes and histiocytes.
Brachychiton Brachychiton (Kurrajong, Bottletree) is a genus of 31 species of trees and large shrubs, native to Australia (the centre of diversity, with 30 species), and New Guinea (one species). They grow to 4–30 m tall, and some are dry-season deciduous.
Brachychiton rupestris The Queensland Bottle Tree (Brachychiton rupestris) originally classified in the family Sterculiaceae, which is now within Malvaceae, is native of Queensland, Australia. Its grossly swollen trunk gives it a remarkable appearance and gives rise to the name.
Brachypelma vagans Brachypelma vagans is a species of tarantula known commonly as the Mexican red rump or Mexican black velvet. It ranges predominantly in Mexico, but can be found as far south as Belize, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Brachypodium distachyon Brachypodium distachyon, commonly called Purple False Brome, is a grass species native to southern Europe, northern Africa and southwestern Asia east to India. It is related to the major cereal grain species wheat, barley, oats, maize, rice, rye, sorghum, and millet.
Brachystegia Brachystegia is genus of tree of the sub-family Caesalpinioideae that is native to tropical Africa. Trees of the genus are commonly known as Miombo, and are the predominant tree in the Miombo woodlands of central and southern Africa.
Brachystegia glaucescens Brachystegia glaucescens is a tree with smooth grey bark, bluish-green leaves, small, creamy-white flowers, and purplish fruit with a woody pod. It grows predominantly in rocky places, in tropical and south eastern Africa.
Brachyury The brachyury mutation was first described in mice by Nadine DobrovolskaĂŻa-ZavadskaĂŻa in 1927 as a mutation that affected tail length and sacral vertebrae in heterozygous animals and is lethal in homozygous animals around embryonic day 10 due to defects in mesoderm formation, notochord differentiation and the absence of structures posterior to the forlimb bud (DobrovolskaĂŻa-ZavadskaĂŻa, 1927). The name brachyury comes from the Greek brakhus meaning short and oura meaning tail.
Braid A braid refer to any object created by interweaving or twinning three or more separate strands of one or more material in a diagonally overlapping pattern. Braids are commonly involved in hairstyling and rope making.
Braid (band) Braid was an emo/post-hardcore band from Illinois that formed in 1993. After forming, the band went through several line-up changes but eventually settled on: Bob Nanna on guitar and vocals, Todd Bell on bass and, Chris Broach on guitar and vocals and Roy Ewing on drums.
Braid group In mathematics, the braid group on n strands, denoted by Bn, is a certain group which has an intuitive geometrical representation, and in a sense generalizes the symmetric group Sn. Here, n is a natural number; if n > 1, then Bn is an infinite group.
Braid theory In topology, braid theory is an abstract geometric theory studying the everyday braid concept, and some generalisations. The idea is that braids can be organised into groups, in which the group operation is 'do the first braid on a set of strings, and then follow it with a second on the twisted strings'.
Braid-breaker Braid breaker is a term for a filter that prevents television interference (TVI). In many cases of TVI, caused by a high field strength of a nearby high frequency (HF) transmitter, the aerial down lead plugged into the back of the TV acts as a longwire antenna or as a simple vertical element.
Braided Braided is a new musical group consisting of Casey LeBlanc, Ashley Leitao, and Amber Fleury, who all competed on the third season of Canadian Idol in 2005. They are the first music group to come from an Idol show in the world.
Braided river A braided river is one of a number of channel types and has a channel that consists of a network of small channels separated by small and often temporary islands called braid bars or, in British usage, aits or eyots. Braided streams are common wherever a drastic reduction in stream gradient causes the rapid deposition of the stream's sediment load.
Brail Brails, in a ship, are small ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, before furling Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.. These brails belong only to the two courses and the mizzen sail.
Braille The braille system, devised in 1821 by Frenchman Louis Braille, is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. Each braille character or "cell" is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two columns of three dots each.
Braille ASCII Braille ASCII (or more formally The North American Braille ASCII Code) is a subset of the ASCII character set which uses 64 of the printable ASCII characters to represent all possible dot combinations in six-dot Braille. It was developed around 1969 and, in spite of originally being known as North American Braille ASCII, it is now used internationally.
Braille embosser A Braille embosser is a printer, necessarily an impact printer, that renders text as Braille. Utilizing special translation software, a print document can be embossed with relative ease, making Braille production much more efficient and cost-effective.
Braille music Braille music is a Braille code that allows music to be notated using Braille cells so that music can be read by visually impaired musicians. The Braille music system was originally developed by Louis Braille.
Braille terminal A braille terminal is a computer input device that follows the braille system of writing for the blind. With a pure braille terminal, input is performed by two sets of three keys plus a space bar (as in the Perkins Brailler), while output is via a refreshable braille display consisting of a row of electromechanical character cells, each of which can raise or lower a combination of six round-tipped pins.
Brain In animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for "in the head"), is the control center of the central nervous system. In most animals, the brain is located in the head, protected by the skull and close to the primary sensory apparatus of vision, hearing, taste and olfaction.
Brain abscess Brain abscess (or cerebral abscess) is an abscess caused by inflammation and collection of infected material coming from local (ear infection, infection of paranasal sinuses, infection of the mastoid air cells of the temporal bone, epidural abscess) or remote (lung, heart, kidney etc.) infectious sources within the brain tissue.
Brain biopsy Brain biopsy is the removal of a small piece of brain tissue for the diagnosis of abnormalities of the brain. It is used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, tumors, infection, inflammation, and other brain disorders.
Brain Builder Group During May 1989 at the interdisciplinary Starlab in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, Hugo de Garis wrote a paper in Revue Internationale de Philosophie in 1990. By 1997, he had set up shop in Kyoto, Japan, where he led the Brain Builder Group at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Lab.
Brain Candy Brain Candy (aka Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy) is the only feature film by The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe. Directed by Kelly Makin and released in 1996, it followed the five season run of their television series, which had been successful in both Canada and the United States.
Brain Cell 'Brain Cell' is a mail art project begun by Ryosuke Cohen in June 1985. The project is basically a networked art project where individual artists create their own 30x42cm work of art with stamps, drawings, stickers and so forth.
Brain dish A brain dish is a brain-computer interface in the form of a small cluster of neurons in a petri dish that are wired to electrodes. While not the first example of this kind of inter-connection, the brain in a dish was the most successful.
Brain drain A brain drain or human capital flight is an emigration of trained and talented individuals ("human capital") to other nations or jurisdictions, due to conflicts, lack of opportunity, or health hazards where they are living. It parallels the term "capital flight" which refers to financial capital that is no longer invested in the country where its owner lived and earned it.
Brain dump The phrase brain dump refers to the transfer of a large quantity of information from one person to another or to a piece of paper. As slang, it can describe a hurried explanation of a system, job, skillset, or other software engineering subject.
Brain Damage (film) Brain Damage is a 1988 American film directed by Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case, Frankenhooker). The movie is a comedy horror that features a young man named Brian (played by Rick Herbst) who has an unwilling symbiotic relationship with a malevolent slug-like brain-eating parasite called "Aylmer" (voiced by famed creature feature host John Zacherle).
Brain Damage (Radio) Brain Damage was a weekly two-hour semi-call-in radio Show produced and hosted by Eric Corley, creator of the popular magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. However, unlike the magazine, Corley used his real name on the show, as opposed to his pseudonym, Emmanuel Goldstein, which Corley has also used in every other radio show that he has been involved with.
Brain Damage (song) "Brain Damage" is the ninth trackThe track number depends upon the edition of the album; some releases merge the two tracks "Speak to Me" and "Breathe", for instance. from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon.
Brain Damaged Eggmen Brain Damaged Eggmen is a side project of members of well-known jam bands Umphrey's McGee and The Disco Biscuits. The band performs cover versions of songs by The Beatles and Pink Floyd, usually with one set dedicated to each band's songs.
Brain Disability Awareness Stamp The Brain Disability Awareness Stamp is a proposed First class postage stamp that a number of groups including the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill advocated that the United States Postal Service release. It was considered by the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee and placed "under consideration for future stamp issuance" It now must be approved by the [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General].
Brain Donor Brain Donor is a British band formed in 1999 by ex-Teardrop Explodes frontman Julian Cope, and Spiritualized members Kevin Bales and Doggen Foster. Bales has since left the group and has been replaced by new drummer Mr.
Brain Donors Brain Donors (1992) is an American comedy movie released by Paramount Pictures, loosely based on the Marx Brothers comedy, A Night at the Opera, and apparently an attempt to update and revive the Marx Brothers' theater successes. The movie was a box office bomb.
Brain event Anything that happens in the brain is a brain event. While clearly a kind of physical event, some philosophers, when they discuss the mind-body problem, argue that some (certainly not all) brain events are also mental events.
Brain fag Brain fag or cerebropathy was defined by the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary as "a hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed". This condition is largely psychological.
Brain fingerprinting Brain fingerprinting is a technique that measures recognition of familiar stimuli by measuring electrical brain wave responses to words, phrases, or pictures that are presented on a computer screen. Brain fingerprinting was invented by Dr.
Brain fitness Brain fitness grew out of the study of neuropsychology and is the science of maintaining and training cognitive abilities through neuroplasticity and stimulating neurogenesis, the creation of new neurons. Cognitive abilities like attention, stress and emotional management, memory, visual/spatial processing, auditory processes and language, motor coordination, and executive functions like planning and problem solving diminish over time unless they are used regularly.
Brain freeze Brain freeze, ice cream headache, freezie Frozen Brain Syndrome or its given scientific name Spheno Palatine Gangleoneuralgia are terms used to describe a form of cranial pain or headache which people are known to sometimes experience after consuming cold beverages or foods such as ice cream, slurpees, or margaritas, particularly when consumed quickly.
Brain Game (North Carolina) Brain Game is a weekly quizbowl-type show for ninth and tenth graders that airs on WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina. It currently airs at 11:30 am on Saturdays, and the current host is WRAL traffic reporter Mark Roberts.

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