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My definition of a brilliant book review is one that interests you in a subject you wouldn't have devoted five seconds to—interests you enough to spend many hours contemplating it.

Hours of mindful fun!

"Nuclei, proteins and lipids move with bug-like authority, slithering, gliding and twisting through 3D space. 'All of those things that you see in the animation are going on in every one of your cells in your body all the time,' says XVIVO lead animator John Liebler, who worked with company partners David Bolinsky, XVIVO’s medical director, and Mike Astrachan, the project’s production director, to blend the academic data and narrative from Harvard’s faculty into a fluid visual interpretation."

If you know that <I>CMS</I> means <I>The Chicago Manual of Style</I>, you didn't need that exclamation point. If you don't, a hundred of 'em wouldn't make the news exciting.

In the new study of brain activity, volunteers silently read phrases describing movements involving one of three body parts. All of the phrases activated movement-related regions in the left frontal cortex&mdash;presumably the ones responsible for moving the body part in question.