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Published 9:22 pm Monday, October 6, 2014
The discovery that the brain possesses a GPS-like function that enables people to produce mental maps and navigate the world won three scientists the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday.
The world still awaits an answer to the ultimate mystery: Why the NFL doesn’t just order the Landover, Maryland, team to change its mascot name.
Is there saffron in those things? Struggling to boost sales as customers move from PCs to tablets, Hewlett-Packard is splitting itself into two companies.
One company will focus on technology services, while the other will be built around what The Buzz thinks is HP’s actual core business: crazily overpriced printer ink tanks that run dry after a single 5-by-7 snapshot.
Cue the mournful piano: On PBS tonight, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns of “The Civil War” fame discovers that his ancestors were Confederate soldiers and slave owners (The Clicker, Page B4).
Burns also discovers that you can’t look at old photos of his ancestors without your eyes slowly panning from left to right.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
