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Law & the Brain

Last week, as part of Brain Awareness Week, I sat in on a conference in New York called “Law & the Brain: How Recent Advances in Neuroscience Impact the Law.” My story is up on the Dana Foundation site, along with a lot of links to other resources in that vein. The story has a [...]

Posted 20 March 2011 † nickyp § Brain science ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Brain Awareness Week, March 14-20, 2011

Brain Awareness Week is a big deal at my work, the Dana Foundation, since we helped start it 16 years ago. We send out thousands of brain-facts booklets and erasers shaped like brains to schoolchildren across the globe, and support partners and groups that offer lectures, lab tours, brain “bees,” exhibits, and other fun for [...]

Posted 13 March 2011 † nickyp § Brain science § Just fun ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

It’s Brain Awareness Week

This year it’s the 15th anniversary of the worldwide event to celebrate the brain. To paraphrase my dentist (who asks me every visit, “How is everything in your mouth?”), how is everything in your brain? To learn more, and maybe understand more, check out an BAW event this week–there are hundreds listed on the Dana [...]

Posted 14 March 2010 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning § Playing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

I touched a brain

OK, so it’s no big deal, whatever. But after we finished following the students doing a Brain Awareness Week tour at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, writer Aalok Mehta and I got to don the gloves and handle the merchandise just like the kids. The once-living-human brain was smaller than I expected and [...]

Posted 19 March 2009 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

It’s brain awareness week

Go ahead, celebrate your brain—it’s certainly a writer’s best tool. Brain Awareness Week, this year from today through Sunday (March 16–23) is organized and promoted by The Dana Foundation, whose Web pages I edit. Well into its second decade, BAW can boast more than 2,200 partners offering lectures, lab tours, movies, “brain fairs” and other [...]

Posted 16 March 2009 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,