Does this seem familiar?
"It's like déjà vu all over again." ~Yogi Berra. I am writing this because when I sat down to work out what to write, I got an...
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Feb 123 min read
The Neuroscience of Baking ?
“The more you know, the more you can create. There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen.” ~ Julia Child. (For those who do not bake,...
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Jan 164 min read
The Optimistic Brain
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ~ Oscar Wilde. Ah, January. I am still reeling from the herculean...
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Dec 11, 20233 min read
Guest Blog: Eating - it's more complicated than you think!
When I was in high school, I had a keen interest in nutrition: What food was considered healthy? Was there a schedule of eating I should...
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Oct 12, 20234 min read
How some animals use their heads and avoid concussion
Woodpeckers: a human head butting a tree at woodpecker speed of about 20 times per second would be concussed. But woodpeckers have...
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Aug 30, 20233 min read
The Neuroscience of Creativity
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”~ Dr. Seuss. Creativity has...
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Jul 16, 20233 min read
Nature is good for Your Brain
“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their...
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Jun 1, 20233 min read
Seeing in color
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color,...
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Apr 19, 20234 min read
"I Can't Draw" and Other Stories We Tell Ourselves
Once upon a time, when our brains were very young and trying to figure out the world, it took in lots of information from that world and...
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Mar 14, 20233 min read
Reading
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ~ Frederick Douglas. Like so many other things our brains do with seemingly little...
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Feb 6, 20233 min read
Dark Winter and The Brain
"See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train; Vapors, and Clouds, and Storms." ~ James Thomson....
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Dec 29, 20223 min read
Gratitude and Your Brain
“Gratitude bestows reverence...changing forever how we experience life and the world.” ~ John Milton. You may think that the time for...
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Oct 28, 20223 min read
Costumes We Wear
“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” ~ William Shakespeare. Halloween comes around and suddenly everyone...
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Sep 22, 20223 min read
Cognitive Fatigue
"The strongest have their moments of fatigue.”~ Friedrich Nietzsche. Ever come home from work feeling like your brain is fried! Can’t...
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Aug 1, 20223 min read
The Smell of Rain
“Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.” ~ Rumi. It is raining! We, desert dwellers, greet any rain with relief and joy, but...
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Jun 17, 20223 min read
Heat and Your Brain
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.” ~ Jane Austen. The dry hot desert season is here,...
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May 13, 20223 min read
What Does Color Sound Like?
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of...
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Mar 23, 20223 min read
It is Spring Again.
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke. You wake up with the sun - unexplainably...
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Feb 13, 20223 min read
Chocolate and Your Brain
I bet as mid-February rolls around you have one thing on your mind – chocolate. Or, maybe love? Nope. Chocolate! Ah, what is it about...
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Jan 7, 20223 min read
Hibernation
Ah, winter! Shorter days, colder temperatures, and it is so hard to get out of bed. Perhaps, like me, you sometimes envy animals who...
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