There are a ton of online brain gyms out there. Brain software made 225 million dollars last year. First, its not clear to me if this stuff is any good. More importantly its not clear to me that its any fun. My guess is there are game developers out there that are already ahead of the curve in interesting games. Curious if anyone knows of any that are good.
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
An exploration of anger at the Rubin Museum of Himalyan Art. Sad I missed this. I actually really like Lewis Black. BTW, this posted on the great “One City” the Blog of the Interdependence Project. I strongly recommend checking them out if you are in New York.
Brainwave
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009For those of you who live in New York, this is a great series of events:
Brainwave at the RMA March 23, 2009
Brainwave kicked off at the Rubin Museum of Art on February 27th with Tricycle editor James Shaheen interviewing Buddhist psychotherapist Mark Epstein. Upcoming participants include author Peter Matthiessen, scholar Donald S. Lopez, Jr., author Daniel Goleman, and meditation teacher Geoffrey Shugen Arnold. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review is one of the co-sponsors of this event.
This is the second Brainwave event RMA has put on. From their website:
RMA’s second annual BRAINWAVE explores the intersection of mind and matter with nearly fifty different events, including discussions with some of the world’s premier artists and neuroscientists.
The Itch You Can’t Scratch
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009“When the Itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation” Chinese Proverb
This article starts with a woman who had an itch so bad she scratched through her skull into her brain. But that’s just the beginning. Read about phantom limbs being amputed using mirrors and how your reality is just your brain’s best guess of what’s happening. Which is one of the reasons this picture may actually cause you to itch.
THE ITCH
Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies.
by Atul Gawande
t was still shocking to M. how much a few wrong turns could change your life. She had graduated from Boston College with a degree in psychology, married at twenty-five, and had two children, a son and a daughter. She and her family settled in a town on Massachusetts’ southern shore. She worked for thirteen years in health care, becoming the director of a residence program for men who’d suffered severe head injuries. But she and her husband began fighting. There were betrayals. By the time she was thirty-two, her marriage had disintegrated. In the divorce, she lost possession of their home, and, amid her financial and psychological struggles, she saw that she was losing her children, too. Within a few years, she was drinking. She began dating someone, and they drank together. After a while, he brought some drugs home, and she tried them. The drugs got harder. Eventually, they were doing heroin, which turned out to be readily available from a street dealer a block away from her apartment. Read the rest….
