Barbara Finlay

In the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, we often hear nostalgic wishes for the simplicity of Christmases past. It sometimes seems the season has always been a time of stress, hectic shopping, expensive decoration and frantic preparation. The old folks who grew up in rural Texas know better. I happened on some powerful reminders of their experiences as I was looking through old newspapers in search of information on my hometown, Fife, 85 miles south of Abilene.

Abstract Analysis of brain volumes across mammalian taxonomic groups reveal a pattern of complementary and inverse covariation between major brain components, including a robust negative covariation between the limbic system and neocortex. To understand the computational basis of this covariation, we investigated the multidimensional representational space of task-optimized machine learning systems.

The Alamo Cenotaph is decorated in bas relief by figures from the 1836 Siege of the Alamo, James Bowie, James B. Bonham, David Crockett, and William B. Travis. Barbara Finlay October 2021 The tale of the heroes who held out in a Spanish mission and created the Texas Republic leaves out a critical detail: Slavery Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford As a child growing up in rural West Texas, I learned a lot about my state’s proud history.