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A childhood filled with Reader Rabbit and other educational doodads appears to be the key to improved cognitive development later in life. Everything else, including whether your parents were loving or not, has no discernible effect. At least, that's what Martha Farah, Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues have concluded after a twenty-year study.

Rutgers University professor Barry Komisaruk has secured his place in history as being the first to capture imagery of what goes on in a woman's brain before, after, and during an orgasm. Using an fMRI machine, Komisaruk took a series of images of the brain during an orgasm and compiled them into a short animated movie. Using this, he's hoping to get a better idea of how an orgasm works and what parts of the brain are involved. So hot.