"But honestly this was all zigzagging through my brain like lightning bolts".
These biases emerge when our brains make lightning quick judgments about situations and people – without us even knowing it.
"At its core, your brain is a lightning storm," explains one of the text panels in "Brain: The World Inside Your Head," the latest exhibition at the New York Hall of Science.
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, at University College London, was one of the first to investigate the way the brain makes these lightning-fast decisions about the self and others.
But there was nothing to suggest that Cicoria had experienced any significant brain damage after the lightning strike, other than a very transient disturbance to his memory systems for a week or two.
With the NIH Brain Initiative, the scientific community is charged with accelerating the invention of cutting-edge technologies that can produce dynamic images of complex neural circuits and illuminate the interaction of lightning-fast brain cells.
Sure, says the leader who calls himself Lando, there must be those who disapprove of it: "But down in that Old Testament part of the brain, way down there where lightning bolts still reach out of the sky and strike down those who transgress, people need justice!
There's so much more: a fight at the dinner table, playing with a water hose and a brief flash of danger when father is working under the car and the boy eyes the jack holding the body of the automobile high off the ground and a "what if" lightnings through his brain.
Many of the suspects claimed they were coerced into selling drugs and accused officers of calling them "hippies" and "brain-dead retards". Organizers at Lightning in a Bottle have limited control over how law enforcement chooses to get involved with their event, but they're being more vocal about their harm-reduction policies this year than they've been in the past.
Biden called epilepsy "a terrible lightning storm in the brain".
The Lightning Process, a type of brain therapy, was used alongside specialist medical care.
