20 posts and columns on brain

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.

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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