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We expected, under Walter, that the Lakers would give their basketball brain trust an obvious boost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Future studies will take a more dog-centered approach to explore how dogs combine different brain signals when trying to understand the people around them.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Exercise may also increase the quality of deep sleep and enhance slow wave activity associated with brain waste clearance.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

A study published August 7 in the Cell Press journal iScience offers a closer look at what happens inside a dog's brain when it sees different human facial expressions.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

If there are exact locations in the brain that allow for the ability to hear or to breathe, is there a place that generates human social behavior?

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Meanwhile, stock-picking fund managers are apparently throwing in the towel, because using your brains to pick good stocks at reasonable prices can’t compete with simple momentum — in other words, with just following the crowd.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

The researchers also examined what happens inside the brains of healthy adults while they solve logical problems.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

The ex-Chelsea boss says he met Guardiola in Barcelona a day before he officially signed as his replacement, as it was "useful" to pick his brains - having been at the club for a decade.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I pick their brains a lot,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Of course she had no idea if ostriches cared about that sort of thing; perhaps there was some advantage to having a skull full of eyeballs instead of brains.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Larger brained animals could use their intelligence to find fruit more efficiently, which in turn provided more energy to fuel a larger brain.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

Clevinger, his long hair brained into pigtails, allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2022

At least there’s nothing pointy on the Steam Deck, unlike some of the book corners I’ve brained myself with over the years.

From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022

A second major find, the nearly complete skull of a larger brained hominid, long known simply by its field number “1470” and now classified as H. rudolfensis, bolstered that point.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2022

Raizel and I scooted out of the way to avoid being brained by one.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Théo is at home—he went to tell his mother," Joyselle said, nearly braining an old lady with his violin-case as he swung round to speak.

From The Halo by B. Martin Justice

At times, an invisible finger tapped at the panes; it was some bird of the night, drawn by the light, braining itself against the glass….

From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet

That is the Tessino, braining itself in cataracts.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend

It was something that they prevented the mace of chivalry from utterly braining humankind.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various