Neuroscientist at Stanford, NYT bestselling author, Writer/host of The Brain on PBS. Companies
@Neosensory
&
@BrainCheck
.
#1
Science Podcast: Inner Cosmos.
My latest documentary, THE CREATIVE BRAIN, is now available on Netflix. Based on my book with the incredible
@anthonykbrandt
(The Runaway Species), this film includes Tim Robbins, Michael Chabon, Grimes, Dan Weiss, Kelis, Robert Glasper, and so many others
People you love become part of you — not just metaphorically, but physically. You absorb people into your internal model of the world. Your brain refashions itself around the expectation of their presence.
Join me & the American Brain Foundation on Wed eve for our gala event. I'll be (virtually) presenting the Public Leadership in Neurology award to Emilia Clarke. She suffered 2 strokes & launched her own charity to fund neuro-rehab (
@SameYouOrg
).
More info:
I love Sagan so much. For anyone who didn't get to grow up watching his clear, simple explanations, his love of human aspiration and his inspiring turn of phrase, check out the video. These slow shots where he simply speaks to the camera are the signature of a bygone time.
Big announcement today. With producers Adam Fratto and Matt Tauber I've launched a production company in Hollywood: Cognito Entertainment. We make film and TV about science (non-fiction or fiction). Almost a dozen projects underway. Stay tuned!
My friend Anil Seth is one of the most authoritative voices in a central question of neuroscience: what is consciousness? His new book is a page-turner & a mind-blower. If you've ever wondered how billions of neurons chattering in the dark equate to your experience, start here.
"Oliver Sacks ve William Gibson, Carl Sagan’ın verandasında bir araya gelip yazsalar böyle olurdu dedirten bir kitap.” Wall Street Journal
@davideagleman
CANLI DEVRE, Zeynep Arık Tozar çevirisiyle Temmuz başında raflarda.
After years of research & development, I'm thrilled to report that we have amazing new results in our studies of tinnitus (ringing in the ears).
If you have tinnitus, read the thread to learn more...
These photos are actually black and white. But the thin grid of overlaid lines makes your visual system believe otherwise. The color assimilation illusion happens bc you see a blurred version wherever the image is not in your central vision. Images by Øyvind Kolås
@hodefoting
.
Brain lovers: over the years the New Yorker has published several neuro-related stories; here they collect up the best ones (including the profile piece on my research from several years ago). Good selection of articles to scratch any cerebral itch 👍
A deep thank you to everyone who's been listening to Inner Cosmos.
It's now ranked as the
#9
podcast of all podcasts (5 million).
I've always believed that people care about science and how it intersects with daily life. You've proven the premise correct. Sincere gratitude ~
Brain lovers: over the years the New Yorker has published several neuro-related stories; here they collect up the best ones (including the profile piece on my research from several years ago). Good selection of articles to scratch any cerebral itch 👍
Why do we dream? Why do we experience a fraction of our lives hustling inside an internal, delusory picture show?
My former student
@DrDonVaughn
and I have worked on this problem for the last 10 years, and we just may have cracked it.
If we meet aliens someday, how will we figure out what they're saying?
We face this problem right here at home, with 2M species & no Google Translate. Join me + my guest
@aza
to see how we might get to animal translation on today's new episode of Inner Cosmos.
People you love become part of you — not just metaphorically, but physically. You absorb people into your internal model of the world. Your brain refashions itself around the expectation of their presence.
People you love become part of you — not just metaphorically, but physically. You absorb people into your internal model of the world. Your brain refashions itself around the expectation of their presence.
The lines are not actually moving in the picture. Prove this to yourself by planting a finger on the screen. But when your motion detectors are tickled in the right way, you perceive movement.
Always remember: what we assume to be reality out there ain't necessarily so.
I snapped this picture at a construction site for a Gap store. It used to read "Bolder, Brighter". I love the fact that it now appears to assert a correlation between age and wisdom.
My new book hits the shelves on Aug 25.
Its concepts form the basis of my brain plasticity course at Stanford and my spin-off company
@neosensory
.
Every new hypothesis & experimental result I've had in the past decade formed the bricks of this book.
More to come soon….
Today Robin Williams would have been 69.
But he fought an invisible battle with Lewy body dementia. This dementia is quite common (2nd to Alzheimers) but too little recognized & understood.
“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”-Robin
Thrilled to announce that after years of research we are debuting our new product: the Neosensory Clarify. This is a stand-alone wristband that replaces the need for hearing aids. 1/7
I discuss in Livewired why the blind often become powerful musicians. The territory of their visual cortex gets taken over by hearing & touch, giving higher resolution to those senses. See blind 7-year-old İpek Nisa Göker play Mariage d'Amour by Paul de Senneville.
This cliff is 1 km high. It's not on earth, nor on any planet, nor on a moon. It's on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, photo'd by ESA's Rosetta.
Altho it's a very high cliff, the tiny gravity here would make a straightforward climb and a survivable jump.
#extraplanetaryCliffJumping
R.I.P. physicist Stephen Hawking, who has just died at age 76.
Although trapped inside your own body, you reached out to the most extraordinary distances...
Last week I received a new request in the mail. A man is going to deep-freeze his body when he dies & asked me to sign my book for his re-entry into the world some centuries hence, when future scientists figure out how to revivify him.
#BestSigningRequestEver
As people get older and have less energy, there's often a drive to make things more predictable. But the most important thing you can do for your brain is to put it in novel situations and give it novel challenges.
#Livewired
"As people get older and have less energy, there's often a drive to make things more predictable. But the most important thing you can do for your brain is to put it in novel situations and give it novel challenges.
#Livewired
"
My new book THE SAFETY NET just hit the shelves. It's about the sudden advent of the internet in the context of millennia. Why did previous civilizations collapse? From pandemics to dictatorships, come see how the equations are changed by our new tech.
We’ve published an ebook & audiobook of the brilliant The Safety Net by
@davideagleman
. It's a fascinating look at how the internet fundamentally reshapes our relationship to everything from pandemics to dictatorships. It's intelligent, thought-provoking and genuinely hope-filled
Brain lovers: over the years the New Yorker has published several neuro-related stories; here they collect up the best ones (including the profile piece on my research from several years ago). Good selection of articles to scratch any cerebral itch 👍
As people get older and have less energy, there's often a drive to make things more predictable. But the most important thing you can do for your brain is to put it in novel situations and give it novel challenges.
#Livewired
People you love become part of you — not just metaphorically, but physically. You absorb people into your internal model of the world. Your brain refashions itself around the expectation of their presence.
The lines are not actually moving in the picture. Prove this by planting a finger on the screen. When your motion detectors are tickled in the right way, you perceive movement. Always remember: what we assume to be reality out there ain't necessarily so.
Hello, I'm a neuroscientist in a movie. I sport a white lab coat all the time, even when my job doesn't call for it. When a detective enters my lab, I'm never in the middle of something. I lower my beaker of colorful liquid and stare at a brain scan to divine some critical clue.
Wonderful to sit down with Tim Ferriss (
@tferriss
) on his podcast to discuss consciousness, sensory augmentation, dreaming, synesthesia, time, productivity, and so much more.
I've been thinking about expressions that characterize previous years. Things like:
"There's an app for that"
"Can you hear me now?"
In this year of Zoom meetings, the new expression I've said/heard daily is:
"Wait - you're on mute."
What other new contenders do we have for 2020?
A once in a lifetime shot captured by photographer Sergio Tapiro, who had taken 300,000+ photos of Mount Colima over 10+ years. He was shooting on a clear night when it finally erupted. “When I saw the camera display I was shocked, I didn’t believe it.”
I just noticed my books have gone from 12% on Audio in 2011 to 31% in 2021. Same narrator (me). Is this a function of lockdown (eg, no booksignings, people taking longer walks, etc) or is the appetite generally increasing through time for this mode of consumption?