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 [...]
Check out my post for Dana Foundation from the AAAS conference in Washington, DC, last week. Here’s an excerpt: Scientists are developing ways to translate thoughts to the actions of machines. A lot of scientists—during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this past week, I could have spent [...]
The Dana Foundation is holding a contest and wants you to be a part of it. Send original brain-related poems to poetry@dana.org by Tuesday, March 15. As with many things poetry-related, the prize is only minor glory (your work posted on Dana’s blog in April, National Poetry month) and small treasure (one of Dana’s books, [...]
Are you a brain researcher, teacher, or other science geek? Consider organizing an event for Brain Awareness Week, this year March 14–20. The Dana Foundation supports this annual world-wide campaign to increase public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research by hosting an international calendar of events, sponsoring some events and offering a [...]
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Posted 19 January 2011
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Found this video over at videosift.com: It really fires up around the :25 mark, but watching the whole thing reminds me how much we move around when we are “sleeping quietly.” The video credit on videosift is “by Perky,” on YouTube it’s “derrobsi.” Here’s where I found it: http://videosift.com/video/Time-lapse-man-sleeping-with-cat I wandered across it because I [...]
(This post by me first appeared on the Dana Foundation blog; lots of other great stuff is there, too!) Making the point that mental illness is a matter for all families, award-winning actress Glenn Close was joined by her sister Jessie and a nephew to give a joint public lecture at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, [...]
Along with some 30,000 brain scientists, I’m heading to San Diego at the end of this week for the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting (SfN); five days of posters, presentations, and conversation about cutting-edge science. But first, on Friday, I’m going to hear what our progress in science might mean morally at the one-day annual [...]
Check out the Dana Foundation site and its blog for my reports from the “Science of the Arts” conference: story “The Neuroscience of Aesthetics (mostly music), blog “Capturing Motion” (movement/dance). Here’s a good quote that wouldn’t fit either story: Pat Metheny, jazz guitarist/composer: “The idea exists before the instrument. If you say, ‘play me My [...]
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Posted 26 October 2010
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Over at the Dana Foundation, we are gathering a list of the best neuroscience books for general readers, to publish later this year in our Cerebrum e-magazine. Our current list was published in 1999, so it’s time for an update. Please help us out by taking our quick survey. You can name just one book, or [...]
November is National Novel Writing Month! More at nanowrimo.org