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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: ,

Brainy Student-Bees

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 [...]

Posted 18 February 2010 † nickyp § Brain science ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Stay tuned

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 [...]

Posted 28 January 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: , ,