brain
November 11, 2009
- Jack Kerouac got all jacked up on it and wrote “On The Road” in one long rambling paragraph in a three-week kick ass session. The Nazis took it when they were jumping out of planes behind enemy lines in route to their next murderous rampage. Ginsburg wrote about it. John-Paul Sartre was devoted to it. My depressed aunt has her Prozac, my worrying mom has her Valium, the ...
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November 4, 2009
- Documenting your brain on digital has its pros and cons. But after watching this video I am on the side of the con. The con is when your writing blogs for someone, tweeting for someone or facebooking for someone that someone is not you in the present moment. And the psychologists are absolutely right. When you are online and thinking your creating content in the "creative sense" ...
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August 17, 2009
- However you slice it, technology is growing exponentially. As technology gains sophistication, its price goes down. In fact, if computerss are graphed, their capacity gains and price reductions since inception would result in a $.03 computer by 2016. Don't believe me? How about those multifunction calculators in a package for birthday parties, averaging $.25 each? I remember when my ...
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May 14, 2009
- In the mid 1990s Italian researchers located a neuron in the macaque’s brain that fired whenever the monkey reached out and grabbed an object. During a coffee break, the neuroscientists looked over and saw the monkey’s neuron was firing away—but the monkey wasn’t reaching for anything. Instead, the macaque was watching the experimenters reach for objects. The real arm and the idea of an ...
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April 18, 2009
- There's so much to write about in my life right now and yet I feel fuzzy and "writer-blocked", as if somebody slipped me a not- non-drowsy-sudafed in my non-fat double white chocolate mocha this morning. And I have tried everything to wake up today, including jogging 4 miles, another cup of coffee, yoga (wait...doesn't that relax the body instead of stimulating it?), swedish fish ...
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April 6, 2009
- Eating Disorders the Absurdly Simple Brain Cure Can be Found in the Newest Book Not Your Mother’s Diet- The CURE for your EATING ISSUES Eating Disorders book launch: 12 clinical years in the making starting with 20,000 online users holding on to their keyboards to start this eating disorders book launch on May 12, 2009 on amazon.com. The eating disorder and eating issues’ brain cure ...
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March 11, 2009
- Robots and the Future Science and technology is starting to delve into the possibility of creating a humanoid robot that can feel, think and act in the same way as any human. They are experimenting on the human brain, linking robotic hands to our brain synapses, creating full models of humanoid robots that are now in the beginning stages in their design, now taken on as a technological ...
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March 9, 2009
- This is from Brain Rules, an indispensable work by developmental molecular biologist John J. Medina. Inserted comments are all mine, with tongue firmly in cheek. "Researchers found a group of couch potatoes (oh, gosh, they must have been writers) measured their brain power, exercised them for a period of time, and re-examined their brain power. (The ones who were still alive, I'm ...
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December 15, 2008
- This was a good year for epigrammists. Politics and the economy were going up, down and sideways. Plenty of the best and worst of human nature was in evidence. Out with the old and in with the new might be coming true. We can only hope. I've completed my second book of epigrams and am well into my third. Here are a few December thoughts for this holiday season of joy and perhaps, more modest ...
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November 25, 2008
- yesterday, i finished the revision of my complete idiot's guide to buddhism (begun july). it will hit stands around june, meanwhile, here's a sidebar with fun facts about the brain, of possible interest [the last portion i find particularly so] : The human brain takes up 2% of the body's weight yet requires about 25% of its oxygen. The number of states the brain is capable ...
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