David Eagleman

The Brain: A book review by Bob Morris

February 9, 2022

The Brain: The Story of You David Eagleman Pantheon Books (2015) How and why our lives shape our brains and our brains shape our lives Those of us who watched the six-part PBS series based on this companion book are…

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An invitation to “strap in for a whistle-stop tour into the inner cosmos”

September 3, 2017

In The Brain, David Eagleman explains that “the inner cosmos” is an infinitely dense tangle of billons of brain cells and their trillions of connections. “I hope you’ll be able “to squint and make out something that you might not have…

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Beyond the Five Senses: Telepathy, Echolocation, and the Future of Perception

June 28, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article by Matthew Hutson that appeared in The Atlantic. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Alvaro Dominguez *…

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The Brain: A book review by Bob Morris

October 31, 2015

The Brain: The Story of You David Eagleman Pantheon Books (2015) How and why our lives shape our brains and our brains shape our lives Those of us who watched the six-part PBS series based on this companion book are…

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The most jaw-dropping TED Talks

April 13, 2015

If you want to put some white caps on your gray matter, look no further. Almost four million people watch a TED Talk each day. They have rated these as the ten most “jaw-dropping”: Hugh Herr: The new bionics that…

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