21 posts and columns on brain

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When Gaming Is Good for You

in News on March 6 at 8:00 am PT

Videogames can change a person’s brain and, as researchers are finding, often that change is for the better.

Get Your Zombie-Eaten Brain Ready for Some Big-Think Tech Books

in Media on December 28, 2011 at 7:18 am PT

Time for some reading beyond 140 characters!
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Viral Video: Apple Innovation, Sparkly Vampires and My Stroke in TEDx Speech

in Media on December 14, 2011 at 10:02 am PT

Here’s a video in which I talk about doing “More” and not less, no matter what.
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IBM Announces Move Toward “Cognitive” Computing

in News on August 18, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Computers are often called electronic brains, though they are different from the human variety in fundamental ways. IBM believes it is bridging the gap.

Taking Software For Older Drivers On a Quick Spin

in Personal Technology on August 12, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Walt Mossberg, in his Personal Technology column, reviews DriveSharp, software that aims to train the brain to think faster on the road.
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Weekend Update, 4.19.09

in News on April 19, 2009 at 1:39 am PT

A look back at the week during which approximately 40 percent of the posts were about Twitter. Or at least it seemed that way. BoomTown got the ball rolling by making a visit to Twitter HQ bearing pies. During a video tour of the premises, Biz Stone discussed rock stars and booze, and spilled the secret of the strange green deer.
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Study: Your Brain Isn’t Built for Twitter

in Media on April 14, 2009 at 9:55 am PT

Ever worry that the ever-increasing barrage of status updates from Facebook, Twitter and every other real-time, hey-look-what-I’m-doing and look-what-happened-just-this-very-second service may be outstripping your brain’s capacity to process them? You’re probably right, says a new study from a University of Southern California neuroscience group.
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Oxford Scientist: Facebook Might Ruin Minds

in News on February 25, 2009 at 1:34 pm PT

The perennial debate about whether fun technology is actually terrible for us has gotten a new spin in the U.K. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Oxford University neuroscientist Susan Greenfield warns that repeated exposure to blips of information from fast-paced TV shows, videogames–and now also social-networking sites such as Facebook–might essentially “rewire” the brain.

YouTube and Mike Homer

in News on June 16, 2008 at 4:10 am PT

Today, Mike Homer, as well as many others suffering from incurable degenerative brain disease and dementias, will get a new video-sharing channel on YouTube, along with a Web site and an interactive widget. Unfortunately, Homer continues to suffer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), for which he is under treatment at the University of California at San Francisco.
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