Neuroscience
Looking forward to reading this new book this week. You can't judge a book by its cover, but this book's cover is both very pretty and likely evocative of what could be inside!
- Popular Neuroscience: Books For A Long Train Ride
Looking for reading material for a longish train trip I am about to take, I decided to hit to bookshelves of my Square's Barnes & Noble to see what popular neuroscience titles might be a good diversion (as well as potential supplementary 'lighter'...
- Starting Work On My New Book
This weekend I crack open the files on my next book and begin work on it, which I plan to complete by the end of 2008. This will be a weekend and vacation-time effort, which is the only way I can fit it in. I've co-authored three academic books in...
- Upcoming Event: San Francisco, 18 March 2006: The Universe, Weighing In At Three Pounds
Looking forward to reading a new book, The Three-Pound Enigma : The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries by Shannon Moffett. You can attend a presentation by the author on the 18th of March 2006 (7 p.m.) at Cover to Cover Booksellers , located...
- Fiction / Science / Philosophy
I like when more than one of my interests combine, as they did in a 1983 book I recently read by Rebecca Goldstein. In The Mind-body Problem, Goldstein's heroine is a philosopher / graduate student at Princeton married to a math genuius. She jokingly...
- 2 Clicks 2 Stuff
I'm listening to Roy Tennant's keynote at the Access 2006 Library Conference. He's terrific, as usual, and what I'm really struck with is his suggestion (challenge?) that we get our users to "stuff" within 2 clicks. A good example he...
Neuroscience
New Book: "The Recursive Mind" by Michael Corballis
Looking forward to reading this new book this week. You can't judge a book by its cover, but this book's cover is both very pretty and likely evocative of what could be inside!
- Popular Neuroscience: Books For A Long Train Ride
Looking for reading material for a longish train trip I am about to take, I decided to hit to bookshelves of my Square's Barnes & Noble to see what popular neuroscience titles might be a good diversion (as well as potential supplementary 'lighter'...
- Starting Work On My New Book
This weekend I crack open the files on my next book and begin work on it, which I plan to complete by the end of 2008. This will be a weekend and vacation-time effort, which is the only way I can fit it in. I've co-authored three academic books in...
- Upcoming Event: San Francisco, 18 March 2006: The Universe, Weighing In At Three Pounds
Looking forward to reading a new book, The Three-Pound Enigma : The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries by Shannon Moffett. You can attend a presentation by the author on the 18th of March 2006 (7 p.m.) at Cover to Cover Booksellers , located...
- Fiction / Science / Philosophy
I like when more than one of my interests combine, as they did in a 1983 book I recently read by Rebecca Goldstein. In The Mind-body Problem, Goldstein's heroine is a philosopher / graduate student at Princeton married to a math genuius. She jokingly...
- 2 Clicks 2 Stuff
I'm listening to Roy Tennant's keynote at the Access 2006 Library Conference. He's terrific, as usual, and what I'm really struck with is his suggestion (challenge?) that we get our users to "stuff" within 2 clicks. A good example he...