update: see video from the event at TheScientist.com (you may have to register) Next Tuesday, March 3, neuroscientists including Dan Levitin (“This is Your Brain on Music) and Joseph LeDoux (“Synaptic Self”) will burn up the Highline Ballroom in New York City along with Rufus Wainwright, Dee Snyder, Lenny Kaye, The Kennedys, Dream Syndicate, and, [...]
Finally got a grip on one of the slipperier characters in the new story, Sam. Kind of important, as he’s the hero/secondary lead. Not as much writing as character-sketching and thinking—15 hours of work, but only 2,100 new words. But the ice is breaking (or is it the logjam?) and I’m going to fly (swim, [...]
The Neurocritic plays host to Encephalon 64, the latest brain-blog carnival. We didn’t make the cut this time (someone may have sent the e-mail too late), but it’s still chock-full of goodies. Highlights for me this time were the images: Jane Mackay’s painting “Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto,” a synesthetic composition bridging the gap between sight [...]
Might the beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles of Alzheimer’s be symptoms and not causes? Some scientists are coming around to that idea, according to a story on the Dana site this week. This is a follow-on from earlier stories on the series of failed amyloid drug trials this past year.
I love the audio and video courses I get from the Teaching Company; they distract me when I’m exercising and often challenge my preconceptions about history, science and music. But my first one on writing, Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer’s Craft, also brought up some decades-old and nearly-forgotten anger and resentment. Turns out there [...]
Spent about 12 hours re-plotting, need to make my characters goals conflict with one another, not just fighting the ‘machine.’ Itching to start writing, and this work-project is just about done!
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