Brain Awareness Week starts Monday! It’s the global campaign to increase public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research. Check out the international calendar of events at dan.org to find something near you. Or just follow the Facebook feed or Twitter, #brainweek. This year I’m experimenting with Pinterest, collecting photos from brainy events, [...]
Last month I made my first trip to Vancouver, Canada, and its chilly rain forest. It was a working trip, so I spent most of my time learning about brain science (see my posts for Dana Foundation, Rethinking Emotion in the Lab and Eyewitnesses are trouble). Vancouver’s Convention Center is downtown directly on the water, [...]
So, I did the first readthrough on my NaNoWriMo novel, The Spanish Patriot, this weekend. I hadn’t looked at it since Nov. 30 — actually, I never had looked at it, just kept typing typing typing. When I started reading it Saturday, it was as if I’d written it years ago–no emotional attachment. Waiting works! [...]
Remember those photos from Aspen? Here’s a post for the Dana Foundation blog on what I was doing there, work-wise: How does school work, brain-wise? Do children teach themselves or is it something about the instruction that gets their brains firing and wiring faster? Last fall, a few hundred neuroscientists, teachers, and curriculum-makers met for [...]
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This year, I will: • write every day • spend 2 hours or more every week marketing my work • travel to Spain for research • finish another print-worthy novel • have something I wrote for sale (or bought) by November • volunteer to judge or coordinate 3 writing contests • continue to volunteer as [...]
This past year, I: • spent more than 300 hours writing (not web-surfing or sitting, but writing) • spent more than 120 hours doing volunteer work • finished 1 print-worthy book (!) • submitted my work to agents and editors, and got good critiques and notes • wrote 1 good short story and started 2 [...]
Came across this today while doing unrelated research: From the London Times, 7 January 1809, page 3 ACKERMANN’S Repository of Arts, &c. which has just appeared, has adopted a novelty, we are surprised not to have been long since thought of, that of making a periodical publication the vehicle to distribute patterns of different articles [...]
Whew, we’re done with a week of meeting smart folks and learning about the brain. More than 31,000 neuroscientists hit DC last week, and a lot of us wrote about it. Here are my entries for The Dana Foundation: How Do You Get Involved in Neuroethics? During a workshop at the annual meeting of the [...]
Smack in the middle of National Novel Writing Month, I have to switch gears for a week to report on the news in brain science (that’s my day-job). Neuroscience 2011 is the big event of the year for these folks. Starting Saturday, more than 30,000 scientists from around the world are expected to converge on [...]
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November is National Novel Writing Month! More at nanowrimo.org
