Sentences with phrase «brain around the fact»

For ninety - nine percent of the population who have never questioned if they are male or female because their gender identity aligns with their biological sex, I challenge you in the same way Jesus challenged his disciples — try to wrap your brain around the fact that not everyone is wired as you are; you are in the fortunate majority that somehow beat the odds in the crap - shoot of gender identity.

People can't wrap their brains around the fact that Nashville is a vibrant city that loves hockey.

I still can't wrap my brain around the fact that we're about to celebrate Easter in a couple of weeks.

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The part of NFL Commissoner Roger Goodell is played by the handsomer of the two Wilson brothers, and the movie centers around the fact that Goodell allegedly tried to downplay and discredit Omalus research despite the fact that there is just no scientific reason to beileve that there is a link between brain injuries and the lingering effects of those brain injuries.

In other words, any way you choose to look at it, no matter how carefully you slice and dice the data, there is simply no getting around the fact that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage.

Most of my large family — I'm the oldest of seven kids — accepts the fact that I use cloth diapers, but one of my sisters in particular, just can't wrap her brain around the idea of putting poopy diapers in the washing machine.

In fact, the brain's capacity for inventing new information - processing schemes is thought to explain the success of artificial cochleas, which have been implanted in the ears of approximately 100,000 hearing - impaired people around the world in the past few decades.

The latest research reveals that the brain's blood supply is in fact chiefly controlled by the narrowing or widening of capillaries as pericytes tighten or loosen around them.

Convinced, however, that there was in fact «a hell of a field» to build around gerontological science, Finch has spent the past 3 decades at the University of Southern California's (USC's) Leonard Davis School of Gerontology in Los Angeles seeking to understand the genomic control of senescence in the brain.

Despite the fact that schizophrenia affects around 24 million people worldwide, treatment has not changed much in over 50 years, and largely relies on correcting the regulation of dopamine in the brain of schizophrenia sufferers.

In fact, the volume of the brain and its weight declines with age at a rate of around five per cent per decade after age 40.

The training required to excel at either end of the spectrum is only part of the reason; there's also the issue of body type, the fact that running and lifting tend to appeal to very different sorts of reward centers in the brain («I love that runner's high that kicks in around mile 20!»

Recent brain research has shown youth have different sleep needs than adults, while it's been popular to say that students in the US have less «seat time» than students around the world (as a matter of fact, this is incorrect: while students in some countries have more days of school than the US, most of those countries have shorter school days that actually results in less seat time).

If you've spent decades knocking on agents» doors, only to be told your work is too quirky / unremarkable, dark / light, similar / different, and «not right for us at this time,» it's kind of nice to get your brain around this wonderful new fact: you don't need an agent to be a successful writer any more.

«Since I started this business, something that's been bouncing around my brain is the fact that if somebody were to buy a comic book on comiXology and then want to read that comic, for whatever reason, on Longbox, they'd have to buy it again.

If the fact that meditation has been around for millennia doesn't convince you that it works, then listen to what Fast Company says: a 2009 Danish study found «long term meditation is associated with increased gray matter density in the brain stem.»

He also says it was not disputed that after the accident he displayed a number of characteristics consistent with having suffered a brain injury, including the fact that he had a flat affect and his behaviour around his family was different, as well as showing increased irritability, frustration and anger.

At the meeting, Dr. Shore presented many facts around brain development and gender differences.

You're usually trying to wrap your brain around both the fact of the affair and the corresponding pain.