In a tent in Hampshire, farmer Tom is sampling his "brain strain" variety of chilli peppers.
Class worriers The brain strain How green is our Tony?
Their names, evoking travel and conquest — Armageddon, Borg 9, Naga Morich, Brain Strain — sound as though they were made up by the evil twins of the people who brand body lotions.
This might be flattering if I didn't also see his brain straining, bargaining over the terms.
To identify a suitable buffer for extracting prion infectivity and PrPSc from soil, German standard soil (Lufa 2.2 and Borstel) was mixed with scrapie-infected hamster brain (strain 263K) provided by the TSE-Resource-Centre, Berkshire, Great Britain.
Fixed effects include brain region (forebrain, hindbrain, and whole brain), strain (C57BL/6J vs. NOD/ShiLtJ), acute antipsychotic drug exposure (vehicle vs. clozapine), array processing batch (two levels), and two-way interactions between brain region, strain, and drug exposure.
Additionally, driver-dummy data from vehicle impact testing suggest that rotational accelerations contribute to over 80% of the brain strain independent of crash mode (Zhang et al., 2006).
The NY99 isolate used was originally isolated from an American Crow brain (strain NY99-4132) and was subsequently passaged once in Vero cells before being used for these studies.
Given the brain-straining diversity of the art and artists crowding into the outsider tent, we shouldn't be surprised that no one has yet come up with a universally agreed-upon definition.
Perhaps our fascination is merely a function of our brains straining to make sense of what we're seeing.
