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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 ‡ Comments (1) ° 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 ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Old and bitter

I love the audio and video courses I get from the Teaching Company; they distract me when I’m exercising and often challenge my preconceptions about history, science and music. But my first one on writing, Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer’s Craft, also brought up some decades-old and nearly-forgotten anger and resentment. Turns out there [...]

Posted 04 February 2009 † nickyp § Thinking § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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