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Episode 47 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of Principles of Brain Evolution by Georg F. Striedter. My goal is to highlight the main ideas of this complicated, and often controversial subject. Understanding the principles of brain evolution is an important element in our...
3 years ago today* I arrived for the first time ever in Portland, Oregon. I still remember that day sooo well. Fuck I was scared. Chris and I got off the train, got a cab to take us to our apartment. What a shit-hole that was. Though I didn't realize it until right before we moved out. Then we...
Pretend play not only enhances intellectual development but exercises all facets of the developing child. Here's how: Other benefits to pretend play
My brain and I are wrestling today. She wants to play Queen of the Kingdom of Empathy and beseech her Minions of Emotions to fester in my chest until I unravel. I, on the other hand, would like to process things like you humans do with filters and compartments and recycling bins and conveyor belts -...
I just started reading a book about brain science. It’s by a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School. It’s a good subject; he’s a good writer. And I’m gaining hope that I can actually improve my brain. The author is telling me that I can change my brain (for the better) for the rest of my...
It seems like everyone has a book for me to read these days. And the problem with that is that I have books everywhere right now. Every one of them is saying "read me". For example, I had a good conversation with my neighbor the other day about the effects of vaccines on children and learning...
Usually I like to finish a book before I write about it in the blog but this one is particularly fascinating and who knows, once school starts in a week, what time I will have for reading and writing. The other day, I was “cracked open” by a song. I can only assume that you can relate. It was...
Beginning in the Fall of 2007, every incoming Freshman at Champlain college takes a course called Concepts of Self in which they examine the subject of identity creation. Many students naturally think at the ripe old age of 18 or 19 that they already know themselves (Socrates chuckles) and that they...
Daniel Siegel, MD In Episode 44 of the Brain Science Podcast I talk with Daniel Siegel, MD about meditation and the brain. Dr. Siegel is the author of several books including The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being. In this interview we review the scientific...
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. - A.A. Milne The third rate mind never goes anywhere because it is constantly being led by the...
So, I found this cool new blog site. I thought I would try it out. I blog all the time in my head, but seldom get it from my brain to my fingertips to write it or type it. Then when I may have time to write the brilliant, witty entries that I concoct in my mind...they are gone. I blogged all day in...
New science indicating fluoride’s dangers to the brain and other organs will be presented by prominent fluoride research scientists during back-to-back conferences of the International Society for Fluoride Research (ISFR) and the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) in Toronto August 7-11. Fluoride,...
Brookstone Photo Frame Speakers "Traditional" Picture Frames and Speakers Link: Brookstone These photo frames from Brookstone plug into your laptop via USB, displaying 4" x 6" pictures (physical prints, not digital photos), and double up as a nice pair of speakers for your laptop. Days Off Leo's...
A fitness and health blog I follow recently discussed the typical causes of eye twitching. This piqued my interest as my sister frequently suffers from episodes of insufferable eye spasms that span multiple days. The good news is that this annoyance is probably environmentally triggered by a lack of...
This has been truly a long drawn out week. I am ready to declare my brain a mush zone for the week. I have used it way to much then I should have. I just hope that by next week we are able to get a new car. I am tired of having to relye on people for ways around. So use to being indepenent.
Do you ever wonder why the most random things will begin huge changes in the way you see things? I believe that everything happens for a reason, everything from what I watch on TV to what happened at work. It all has lessons built within. Ready to teach me whatever I am meant to learn for the day....
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. - Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist...
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich “It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures, and saw the sites -- if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different. . . .” Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye In many ways,...
David Rokeby in Very Nervous System in the street in Potsdam Very Nervous System is the third generation of interactive sound installations which I have created. In these systems, I use video cameras, image processors, computers, synthesizers and a sound system to create a space in which the...
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