I began writing for this blog a bit more than three years ago. Not really knowing what a blog was, I intended to use it as repository of my experiences and observations that impressed me that deeply that they remained unforgotten. I wanted to preserve this recollections in the cloud for peace of mind in the hope that I will be able to retrieve them from this pensive when needed and in the hope that they may help others in their quest for insight.
In the past three years, this repository has evolved into a collection of more than one hundred regularly updated mini-essays. The topic of some developed at a pace that the updates outgrew the original posts. Multiple separate, yet connected, narratives emerged. To facilitate reader search, links to the posts on this blog are sorted by topic below. The categorization is intentionally kept simple to permit an easy review. Some posts could have been listed under other themes as well; others that did not fit any were left out and may be added under new topics later. I shall keep the list updated, as new posts become available (01/09/11).
Science & Art
Brain & Mind
A Theory of Mind & Related Thoughts
- Prologue to A Theory of Mind
- Theory of Mind I: Feral Children & Language Development
- A Theory of Mind II: H.M.'s Memory
- A Theory of Mind III: Emotions
- About Superior Intelligence
- About Us & Other Minds
- Cave Art: The Dawn of Spirituality
- H.M.'s Brain
- Mary The Elephant & The Mind
- Professor Max Wertheimer's Synergy
- Parent Scientists, Children & Informed Consent
- fMRI I: Blood Flow & Mental Processing
- fMRI II: Memory of Simple Stimuli & Brain Activation
- fMRI III: Religiosity & Brain Activation
- Absolutes, Relatives, Brain Imaging & Steroids
- Good News for Brain Energy Use
- Gustav Fechner & Functional Brain Imaging
- Imaging Discord in the Brain
- Madoff & Mind
- Neurolaw & The Mind
- Konrad Lorenz, Imprinting & Functional Brain Imaging
- The Brain: A Giant Self-Medicating Gland
- The Elusive Sense of Magnetism
- Echolocation, Science & Power
- The Quest for the Infrasound Acoustic Fovea
- Neuroanatomy of an Earthquake
- Force & Resilience
- Whiskers, Manatees & The Mind
- Professor Ewert's Toad
- Brain Plasticity & The Mind
- The Power of Instruction & The Brain
- About People with Visual Disability and the Usefulness of Braille
- About Cochlear Implants & The Quality of Music
- Auguste Forel & Brain Plasticity
- Constantin von Monakow & Brain Plasticity
- Hemispherectomies, Brain Plasticity & The Mind
- The Versatile Mind: Seeing without Visual Cortex
- Brain Machine Interfaces & Brain Plasticity
- Brain, Mind & Brain Waves
- Genes, Brain Plasticity & Memory
- Autism, Schizophrenia & Time
- Autism & Genes, Revisited
- Cortical Development & Schizophrenia
- Fundamental Research & Fragile X Syndrome
- Advances in Spongiform Encephalopathy
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis & Iplex
- Recent Advances in Parkinson's Disease
- Cell Conversion: Potential Solution for Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Schrödinger's Cat: Probability, Science & Medicine
- Cell Phones & Brain Cancer
- Glioblastoma multiforme: The Octopus in the Brain
- The Human Genome: A False Promise?
- Color Blindness, Gene Therapy & Brain Plasticity
- Sensory Renewal: Goldfish Eyes & Hair Cells
- The Very Plastic Axolotl
The Financial Crises of 2008, Fundamental Research & Higher Education
- About Taking Risks
- Subprime Lending: Truthiness & Delusion of Mind
- The Financial Crisis & Higher Education
- Academic Debt: A Mind-Numbing High-Wire Act
- Academic Institutions & Profitability
- No Country for Shrinking Violets
- Research Funding & Lost Treasures of the Mind
- The Departure of the Cranes
- Fundamental Research: Progress & Renewal
- Higher Education & Humanistic Decline
- On the Value of Education
- Sergeant York's School House
- Smoke Stacks, Colleges & the Sensitized Mind
- The Value of Education, Economically
The Fukushima Quatrology
- Ionizing Radiation & The Mind
- Fukushima: Failure of the Mind
- The Enigma of 1 Fukushima 4 号機
- Fukushima: Failure by Design
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