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I'm just saying. >> i look the way your brain works. a.j. thank you. we always appreciate it. if you want information on everything breaking in the entertainment world, a.j.'s got it tonight on "showbiz tonight" at 5:00 p.m. eastern and 11:00 p.m. on hln. the bronx zoo cobra that's been in the news since it escaped last week, now has a name. it even has its own twitter account, still. the zoo and the new york daily news ran a contest and got more than 33,000 name suggestions. the winner, mia. which is short for missing in action. oh, and in the cobra's tweet last night, they want to name me ...

Social animal." you've done a lot of writing how the brain works, how it makes us do certain things, make certain choices. apply it to ideology. >> all the choices, whether you fall in love, select a candidate, some is conscious, some is unconscious. some research at princeton, they gave pima one second look at candidates in races far from where they lived. they said you're looking at these people for one second. who do you think is more confident. those people could predict with 70% accuracy who was going to wint election. we make snap judgments about them. >> did they pick competent people? ...

Puts it into the refrigerator and hides it from you or consciously says mom, focus on me and not on your computer, it's a wake-up call. >> stanford university researchers recently studied about 100 media multi taskers like beth. >> we saw they had more trouble switching back and forth between tasks, specifically because whenever they were doing one task they couldn't help thinking about the task they weren't doing so everything was getting jumbled together. >> the stanford study found we may actually be changing the way our brain works. >> they're letting the information control what they pay ...

Of the brain so it's kind of like all of the letters in a book but just having the letters of a book on a desk is not the same as the story the story is the act of reading those letters reading those words and making sentences out of them to connect on itself is nothing if. it can't run if you can't run in the brain if it doesn't produce something the activity in the brain through the connector that's really who we are . there would be little sense in mapping the connections in the brain if we couldn't understand which thoughts or actions they correspond to. bush recent advances in imaging and...

The solution in afghanistan is going to be coming through diplomatic efforts, and that is not going to happen through just merely throwing more troops into afghanistan with no plan. you would think that after 16 years, even the most neophyte of leaders would be able to see that throwing more troops in afghanistan, with no plan, is not a winning strategy. >> what do you think about the fact that his current plan as reported contradicts his past tweets about afghanistan? >> well, i mean, when does donald trump not seem to contradict himself. i wouldn't dare try to, you know, go spelunking into t...