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The Different Engine: Rewiring the Brain

It’s a question that’s bothered cultural critics for decades:while we know more than ever, are we getting dumber as a result of the increasing amount of technology at our disposal Reading historical debates, and hearing of the attention paid to them by a thoughtful person, certainly makes one wonder. Speaking in the 1820s of the mechanical Difference Engine he had devised for computing polynomial functions, Charles Babbage, the father of the programmable computer and our web-log’s namesake, told the House of Commons:
On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out " I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Sharp-tongued eloquence---in Latin and Greek as well as their mother tongue---was common fare among Georgians

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It’s a question that’s bothered cultural critics for decades:while we know more than ever, are we getting dumber as a result of the increasing amount of technology at our disposal Reading historical debates, and hearing of the attention paid to them by a thoughtful person, certainly makes one wonder. Speaking in the 1820s of the mechanical Difference Engine he had devised for computing polynomial functions, Charles Babbage, the father of the programmable computer and our web-log’s namesake, told the House of Commons:
On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out " I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Sharp-tongued eloquence---in Latin and Greek as well as their mother tongue---was common fare among Georgians

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It’s a question that’s bothered cultural critics for decades:while we know more than ever, are we getting dumber as a result of the increasing amount of technology at our disposal Reading historical debates, and hearing of the attention paid to them by a thoughtful person, certainly makes one wonder. Speaking in the 1820s of the mechanical Difference Engine he had devised for computing polynomial functions, Charles Babbage, the father of the programmable computer and our web-log’s namesake, told the House of Commons:
On two occasions I have been asked [by Members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Sharp-tongued eloquence---in Latin and Greek as well as their mother tongue---was common fare among Georgians and Vic
A. He felt it was tricky.
B. He felt it was absurd.
C. He felt it was inevitable.
D. He felt it was ,reasonable.

[填空题]According to Conrad, where do human brain’s capabilities stem from
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[单项选择]The brain’s neurological specialization for language is called linguistic （　）, which is specific to human beings.
A. specialization
B. production
C. lateralization
D. assimilation

[填空题]His laboratory ______ and different from Fermi’s laboratory in Rome.

[单项选择]Sleep also seems to be the time when the brain’s two memory systems—the hippocampus(海马体) and the neocortex (新皮质)—"talk" with one other. Experiences that become memories are laid down first in the hippocampus, eliminating whatever is underneath. If a memory is to be retained, it must be shipped from the hippocampus to a place where it will endure—the neocortex, the wrinkled outer layer of the brain where higher thinking takes place. Unlike the hippocampus, the neocortex is a master at weaving the old with the new. And partly because it keeps incoming information at bay, sleep is the best time for the" undistracted" hippocampus to shuttle memories to the neocortex, and for the neocortex to link them to related memories.
How can a piece of information become enduring memory in the brain
A. It must first go to the hippocampus for processing.
B. It must be transferred to the neocoretex.
C. It must eliminate the memory underneath it.
D. It must be captured during the time of sleep.

[填空题]America’s Brain Drain Crisis
Losing the Global Edge
William Kurtz is a self-described computer geek. A more apt description might be computer genius. When he was just 11, Kunz started writing software programs, and by 14 he had created his own video game. As a high school sophomore in Houston, Texas, he won first prize in a local science fair for a data encryption(编密码) program he wrote. In his senior year, he took top prize in an international science and engineering fair for designing a program to analyze and sort DNA patterns.
Kunz went on to attend Carnegie Mellon, among the nation’s highest-ranked universities in computer science. After college he landed a job with Oracle in Silicon Valley, writing software used by companies around the world.
Kunz looked set to become a star in his field. Then he gave it all up.
Today, three years later, Kurtz is in his first year at Harvard Business School. He left software engineering partly because hi