Sep 18, 2022Member-onlyWhat Space Are You In?In neuroscience research, we spend a lot of time trying to make sense of brain images. I spend a good part of most of my days answering the question, “what space am I in?” That’s the cool-kid lingo for talking about what kind of image you are working with. There’s…Science16 min readScience16 min read
Oct 16, 2021Member-onlyIs Aging on Its Way Out?My first car was my grandpa’s 1986 Chevrolet Celebrity. It had a lot of character. About 25% of the time, if you stopped at a red, the car would stall, and I became adept at putting it in park, restarting the ignition, and getting back into drive before the car…Science8 min readScience8 min read
Oct 1, 2021Member-onlyHow to Decide When We DieWe are semantic apes. We love categorizing things. Even in Genesis, God seems to be amused by Man’s propensity to name things, bringing “all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky” to “see what the man would name them.” We love to classify and differentiate. But it’s…Science9 min readScience9 min read
Aug 12, 2021Member-onlyDoes Your Heart Control Your Thoughts?Okay, I admit that my title is meant to be a bit clickbaity. But with clickbaity gusto, I’ll double down and begin by reminding you that Aristotle, who many well-educated people regard as a pretty smart dude, believed that the conscious mind resided in the heart. If you put down…Science17 min readScience17 min read
Jul 15, 2021Member-onlyCan neuroscience help us decide how to meditate?Over the past year or so, I have found myself developing opinions about meditation. I am not an expert meditator or a meditation teacher. I acknowledge and respect the long and ancient histories of meditative practice. …Science10 min readScience10 min read
May 23, 2021Member-onlyWheels are Turning: How Cyclicity Analysis is Changing the Way I Think About the Brain“Their brains lit up!” Most people will be familiar with the hot yellow and red blobs superimposed on beautifully high-resolution brain images to show brain activation. These images give the impression that the brain is switching modules on and off as needed to complete its arcane computations, but the typical…Science11 min readScience11 min read
