This Braincast looks deep into the structure of our brain: what do brain cells look like, how do they operate, how do they communicate and – just a tiny start – how do meaning and decission emerge from that?
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Here the link to the wonderful animation The Inner Life of the Cell.
It´s summer holiday in Germany, so every second time for eight weeks, I´m determined to be lazy.
SHOWNOTES
We start with 3pm´s and DreamWonders, second is Gary and Downtempo1 and the grande finale is performed by Chance´s End and Production to Perfection.
Jun 28, 2008
Jun 21, 2008
Braincast 007 - The Phantom Body
Are we our body? Or does it just carry us through the world? Braincast 7 is about this internal relationship of brain, body and mind. This is much more complex than it feels like, and has some strange side-effects, e.g. an orgasm in a foot.
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As promised the great TED-Talk with Jill Bolte Taylor talking about her stroke.
SHOWNOTES
We start with the beautiful David Emeny and Black Dust and end with CRS Official and Vanish.
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As promised the great TED-Talk with Jill Bolte Taylor talking about her stroke.
SHOWNOTES
We start with the beautiful David Emeny and Black Dust and end with CRS Official and Vanish.
Jun 7, 2008
Braincast 006 - Reward System
Man is driven by emotions. So the reward system promises heavenly joy once we reach our goal. This makes it rather a motivational system – and it´s one of the best ideas of evolution.
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Come and visit the Bionic Body Shop – the future´s so bright – I gotta wear shades ...
Btw - next week I´ll take a holiday!
SHOWNOTES
Christophe Goze and People Smiling kick of this episode and DigiTube close it with Storm Brewin.
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Come and visit the Bionic Body Shop – the future´s so bright – I gotta wear shades ...
Btw - next week I´ll take a holiday!
SHOWNOTES
Christophe Goze and People Smiling kick of this episode and DigiTube close it with Storm Brewin.
May 30, 2008
Braincast 005 - A short History of Brain Science
The brain once was a cooling system and a soul organ. It consisted of cavities and gear wheels. Today we know better for we screen even the tiniest structures. Here a brief (historical) summary of models and methods.
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This is - as soon as Google has finished – the video with Dr. Helmut Wicht, rewarded lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt, and me, dissecting a brain. So this is what it really looks like. It´s not translated yet, but ... isn´t a picture worth a thousand words ...
SHOWNOTES
Our look into the history of neuroscience starts on the piano with Rob Costlow and Reflections, becomes more technical with Project M and Love´s labour and finishes very easy with the Cool Rhythm of Brian Butler.
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This is - as soon as Google has finished – the video with Dr. Helmut Wicht, rewarded lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt, and me, dissecting a brain. So this is what it really looks like. It´s not translated yet, but ... isn´t a picture worth a thousand words ...
SHOWNOTES
Our look into the history of neuroscience starts on the piano with Rob Costlow and Reflections, becomes more technical with Project M and Love´s labour and finishes very easy with the Cool Rhythm of Brian Butler.
May 24, 2008
Braincast 004 - Intelligence
One of the most important application of the brain is intelligence. In this episode we talk about definitions, benchmark data and background, about where and what for.
Carl Zimmer interviews legendary neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga on bloggingheads.tv – very interesting.
SHOWNOTES
We start with a wonderful piece of ambient: Katie Turner and Slow. Completely different, but wonderful as well: Eve from Jr. To avoid becoming to slow, next a rather untypical song from Dreamweaver, called The Rhythm / Club Mix. We finish quitly and beautiful with Katzengold and Strandgut.
Carl Zimmer interviews legendary neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga on bloggingheads.tv – very interesting.
SHOWNOTES
We start with a wonderful piece of ambient: Katie Turner and Slow. Completely different, but wonderful as well: Eve from Jr. To avoid becoming to slow, next a rather untypical song from Dreamweaver, called The Rhythm / Club Mix. We finish quitly and beautiful with Katzengold and Strandgut.
May 17, 2008
Braincast 003 - Emotional and other blindnesses
Between mind and brain there is room for different kinds of blindness. Some, like the face blindness – base on structural damage. Others – like emotional blindness – are grounded on lacks in parenting. In this episode we discuss both.
This weeks link goes to reading pigeons – one of Skinner´s tricks, as important as overhyped in that time.
SHOWNOTES
The titles of this episode are the more than wonderful Piano Moods of Project M – one of my all time favorites and great to write with. The second title is Calling Earth with Transmission.
This weeks link goes to reading pigeons – one of Skinner´s tricks, as important as overhyped in that time.
SHOWNOTES
The titles of this episode are the more than wonderful Piano Moods of Project M – one of my all time favorites and great to write with. The second title is Calling Earth with Transmission.
May 10, 2008
Braincast 002 - Signal and Noise
Why do we have a brain at all? Not everybody needs it and it just burns up a lot of energy. But apart from our own body we have to deal with the world, have to decode it´s signals from all the noise ...
This weeks links are
- the free downloadable CIA book Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
- the UCLA Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School-podcast on iTunes U (via)
- the great company Despair, inc. (via) - have fun!
SHOWNOTES
We start with the wonderful Deep Sea Dust and Surftech. Second a little jazz from DigiTube and Movin – you can even buy it. The last title is Shinny & Happy from Beats – not their best piece of music, but perfectly short.
This weeks links are
- the free downloadable CIA book Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
- the UCLA Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School-podcast on iTunes U (via)
- the great company Despair, inc. (via) - have fun!
SHOWNOTES
We start with the wonderful Deep Sea Dust and Surftech. Second a little jazz from DigiTube and Movin – you can even buy it. The last title is Shinny & Happy from Beats – not their best piece of music, but perfectly short.
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