We're back this week with our usual strange assortment of cool ideas and interesting news stories. (conceptcrucible.com)
But few things are logical in the Southern Conference, a strange assortment of public, church and military schools that has changed borders more often than Czechoslovakia; 32 institutions have been members at one time or another since its founding in 1921. (si.com)
Now that neuroscientists have a reasonable idea of how that territory is divided, we find ourselves looking at a strange assortment of brain networks involved with smell, hunger, pain, goal setting, temperature, prediction, and hundreds of other tasks. (discovermagazine.com)