In honor of National Poetry month and the people who die in our country’s many wars, here’s one of my favorite poems, from the book MORE POEMS, by A.E. Houseman: XXXVI Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is [...]
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, [...]
The new bust of Frank Zappa was still dressed in holiday cheer last weekend. The statue was created by fans from Lithuania, an ex-Soviet Baltic state Zappa never visited; it’s a copy of one that that has stood Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, since 1995 (more on why). It was unveiled during a block party in my [...]
Cleo says: If I sit on the suitcase, you won’t be able to go, right? We’ll see.
Great mock-science story in the Onion this week: Study Reveals Dolphins Lack Capacity To Mock Celebrity Culture. I love the “research will continue” and citations of previous studies. And, especially, the kicker. Good job, Onion folks.
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