An electroencephalogram -- or EEG -- machine measures electrical impulse activity in the brain and can help give a diagnosis for conditions such as epilepsy.
His name is one of the most famous in the world of sport - yet almost nobody knows who the man was. Roland Garros has become synonymous with clay court tennis since the French Open was named in his honour in 1928. Now, his name is daubed in green and rust-red on almost every surface available to marketeers at Stade Roland Garros in Paris - from tennis balls and benches to parasols and sun hats.
Maria Konnikova is the author of the New York Times best-seller Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Her new book, The Confidence Game, will be published in 2015, and she is currently completing a novel.ne measure that deeply interested Galton, who is recognized as âthe father of psychometricsâ for his efforts to quantify peopleâs mental abilities (and scorned as the founder of the eugenics movement because of his theories about inheritance), was speed.