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DEFINITION: (noun) An omen or foreboding, especially of evil. SYNONYMS: premonition, presentiment, foreboding. USAGE: Sara was filled with an evil sense of boding as she approached the decrepit house to sell her Girl Scout Cookies.

While results of a study linking high cholesterol with an increased risk of premature birth merely confirmed previous findings, researchers were surprised to learn that low cholesterol levels also appear to raise premature birth risk. In fact, 21% of white women in the study with low cholesterol gave birth prematurely as compared to only 12% of women in the high cholesterol group. Interestingly, no increased risk was observed in African-American women with low cholesterol. Based on these findings, it appears that too little cholesterol may be as bad as too much cholesterol during pregnancy.

Prosopagnosia is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize objects may be relatively intact. Because prosopagnosia is a variegated disorder, with patients exhibiting different types and levels of impairment, face perception is now theorized as utilizing a specialized brain system and involving multiple stages that can be interrupted in many ways. What techniques do prosopagnosia sufferers use to recognize people?