Simons runs a kind of supersophisticated arbitrage operation from his offices in Manhattan and in East Setauket […]

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while the broad pattern of connections between brain regions is similar in every healthy human brain, their details – their number, size and strength – are thought to underpin our individuality, as synapses are ‘plastic’, shaped by experience.

He was a decent old skin.