A radio show drawing a crowd at SXSW? Had I stepped through a time portal back to the 1930s? The speakers, Catherine Burns, Artistic Director for 'The Moth', and Alexander Huth, from Gallant Laboratory at UC Berkeley, quickly dissuaded me of that idea as they explained this unique pairing of neuroscience and radio.
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Book Review: ‘You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity’ by Susan Greenfield
Greenfield's notions of the actions of subjective experience are based on something external to itself: “While the mind makes sense of the world about you, identity enables the world to make sense of you.”
Read More »SXSW V2V: How Neurobiology and Yoda Can Make You a Better Speaker
“On October 20, 2000, they pulled the plug,” explained motivational speaker John Bates. “We had lost $80 million and when you do that, they come in, usually with security guards, lock you out and you have nothing. I was so embarrassed, so crushed, I thought I was going to die,” he explained. But, Bates survived the bursting of the internet bubble and today, as founder/CEO of ExecutiveSpeakingSuccess.com, he teaches executives all over the world how to pitch to obtain funding and achieve other objectives. And, he's good with a light saber.
Read More »Thinking Outside the Brain About Health Care
The idea that consciousness is not in the brain and the positive impact spirituality can have on health are both gaining ground.
Read More »Google Glasses: A Vision of Brain-Blindness?
Google's augmented reality specs allow users to look out rather than down, but is this safer, or safe at all?
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