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It backs up studies which report improved brain blood flow and cognitive function after people drink citrus juices.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Now scientists have worked out exactly what is going on inside a dog's brain when it sees a human - even a complete stranger - smiling or scowling.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Cuaya explained that, from a neuroscience perspective, "the dog's brain is quite fascinating".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The stress hormone cortisol can interfere with the brain system that helps people navigate and stay oriented.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
If you keep losing heat, the brain shuts down blood circulation over a larger and larger area of your skin.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
"People have got to use their brains," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
One of the best things about being MarketWatch’s Smart Spending reporter is that I get to pick the brains of top personal-finance experts every day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
The bottom line though is that obesity is not a personal failure, but rather a biological condition shaped by our brains, our genes, and the environments we live in.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
“These are football-playing jocks sweating their brains out at camp, but every time I saw them they wanted to B.S. and play canasta,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
My mom always says I got the brains in the family.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Hours before or after they passed, another member of the human family, likely the smaller brained, big-jawed Paranthropus, hurried along the same shoreline.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024
They found that the larger brained primate species did not solve the fruit-finding puzzle more efficiently than smaller brained mammals.
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
No, it was meant to determine if you were right brained or left brained, usually connoted by handedness.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh the demons, they were cackling while he sat devouring a great moose joint, until he was close to braining them with the yellow ball of the joint.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
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 Daudet, Alphonse
They succeed; but not without difficulty, and a free handling of handspikes—almost braining the apes before they consent to relinquish it.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
Both men ducked instinctively, to escape a braining.
From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph
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