And while we do have big gardening ideas on our brain, the extreme weather over the past few seasons, from snow in October to a few barely chilly winter days in January, has us wondering (worrying) if the coming summer weather will be just as fickle.
A staggeringly ambitious, multi-disciplinary art project - or rather, dedicated campaign - yoking together atmospheric and weather patterns, brain waves, stunt kites, a remote Scottish island and a major London gallery; named after a remote astronomical phenomenon when the planets align in space.
So far, the best answer science has come up with is essentially a lamp that tricks your brain into thinking the weather is nicer.
If your job involves thinking, all you really need to work outside in fair weather is your brain -- although pen and paper might come in handy.
A profusion of colons and dashes helps toggle among the multiple points of view, while repeated descriptions of crummy weather give the brain some breathing space.
Syzygy's co-inventor, electronic artist Bruce Gilchrist said it emerged from a desire to "link two areas of study which have eluded scientists for years: the weather and the brain".
Researchers are expressing astonishment over the mummified remains of an extinct bison discovered recently in eastern Siberia, and no wonder: the 9,300-year-old 9,300-year-old 9,300-year-oldved by the region's cold weather that its brain, heart, blood vessels, digestive systemummy even its fur are intact.
An audience member's brain could be forgiven, while weathering Thursday night's nearly three-hour "Stars of the 21st Century" ballet gala at the David H. Koch Theater, for certain paranoid flights of fancy.
Along the way, I would speculate about this agreeably garrulous fellow: What's the weather like inside his brain?
He drew an analogy with another phenomenon once attributed to transcendent powers: "People think the brain is mysterious but not the weather.
