Mind Matters: What neuroscience teaches us about sex

Wondering what topic I might choose to write about this week, I perused several books on my shelf. I could have chosen one of the easier reads, but, no, I elected to choose the most complex of the lot. “The Archeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions,” by Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven, is a page turner—all 500 of them—that looks at mammalian neuroscientific…

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Random-Lee: Local foods, local wines

The first time I visited the Willamette Valley of Oregon was on a business trip about 10 years ago. Some of you might not consider touring wineries and tasting wines all day as “business,” but we were travelling with eight members of our winery staff, trying to broaden their exposure to the whole wide world of wine. At the time, Oregon was the new frontier…

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ChesCo Dep’t of Emergency Services switches voice alert system

The Chester County Commissioners announced that as of 8 a.m., Tuesday Oct. 16, the Chester County Department of Emergency Services switched fire and emergency medical services voice alert paging to a new system, to meet Federal Communications Commission requirements. The FCC order instructs radio communications devices in certain portions of the Very High Frequency (VHF) band to reduce channel bandwidth from 25 Kilohertz to 12.5…

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Centennial Juried Exhibition opens at Delaware Art Museum

The Delaware Art Museum is excited to celebrate its 100-year commitment to supporting regional visual artists with the Centennial Juried Exhibition. On view Oct. 20 through Jan. 13, this exhibition commemorates the museum's past annual exhibitions of painting and crafts — which combined to form the biennial in 1989. Guest-juried by John B. Ravenal, this 97-artist exhibition (featuring 98 individual works of art) honors the…

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