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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Twenty students from 14 schools across Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia braved the snow and ice to participate in the DC Regional Brain Bee on Wednesday. Before the competition, Bee judge Dr. Ben Walker of Georgetown University asked how many participants are contemplating a career in the sciences. All twenty competitors raised their [...]
We are in final edits on a cute little video showing some of the fun stuff people do to celebrate Brain Awareness Week, which this year will be March 15–21. It’s my first foray into video-making since the early 1980s, and I am quite a bit rusty, so this will be an “unauthorized” version, but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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