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Earth Sound Earth Signal

Earth Sound Earth Signal by Douglas Kahn chronicles the history of sonified electromagnetism in the arts (and sciences).

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peripheralHacking the Mind

Where i review the book “Mind Hacks” and list some of those.

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notebook 2010Good Ideas and Notebooks

Where Good Ideas Come From On the flight back from Austria to Montreal I’ve read Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From. I really like his work – i’ve read Mind Wide Open and Emergence before – because he manages …

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DreamGeheimnisse einer Seele and Thinking Dreams

Psychoanalysis is neuroplastic therapy, the inhibitory task of the prefrontal cortex and why dreams are representations of abstract ideas.

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synabcCross-Talking, Colored Grapheme and Mental Chess

Second writeup on Norman Doidge’s book “The Brain That Changes Itself”

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ErlkoenigNeuroplasticity, Supersenses and Reciting Poems

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge tells the story of the shift from Localizationism – the belief that the brain’s structure is hardwired and doesn’t change after the early development stage – to Neuroplasticity – the ability of the human brain to rewire and change itself according to experiences.

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fireflies1Steven Strogatz – SYNC

Steven Strogatz is a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. I own two of his books, Sync (2003) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1994), read some of his papers Exploring complex networks (Nature, 2001), watch him on TED and …

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Gregorian CalendarDan Falk – In Search of Time

Time is a mystery. And the flow of time is an illusion. Possibly a construct of our minds. Possibly an emergent property of space.

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