http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtdFdWkBv8oVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Charlie Rose Brain Series 2, Episode 14 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtdFdWkBv8o)

Eric Kandel of Columbia University, Thomas Insel of the National Institute of Mental Health,William Newsome of Stanford University, Story Landis of the National Institute of Health, Cornelia Bargmann of Rockefeller University and William Newsome of Stanford University…. Charlie Rose back to camera.

Kavli Foundation catalyst for the Brain Initiative.

Segment starting around minute 42.. Rose says needs to be a public information project…facilitate “sharing of knowledge”

Brain Initiative discussed on Charley Rose Show.

 

 

from brainpickings.org Dec. 31, 2013

Wikipedia entry for Maria Popova, curator

About Brain Pickings

Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large,

Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and LivingReflections on how to keep the center solid as you continue to evolve. Fail Safe: Debbie Millman’s Advice on Courage and the Creative Life“Imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time.” A spectacular illustrated-essay-turned-commencement-address. What Is Love? Famous Definitions from 400 Years of Literary History“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.” From Shakespeare to Sontag, the most beautiful definitions of the highest human capacity. Advice to Little Girls: Young Mark Twain’s Little-Known, Lovely 1865 Children’s BookThe playful short story young Mark Twain had written in 1865 at age of 30, newly illustrated by celebrated Russian-born children’s book illustrator Vladimir Radunsky, mischievously encouraging girls to think independently rather than blindly obey rules and social mores. Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds ...

Mason News  Sept. 9, 2013 by Buzz McClain

There’s nothing random about Exploratory Hall.

In fact, the operative word during its five years of renovation and development was “intentionality.” The layout, the fixtures, the furnishings, the flooring, the lighting and even the wood panel in one of the three-story atriums are all intentional by design. The building, which was formerly known as Science and Tech II, is rich with subtle details that enrich the collaboration between student to professor, and student to student, while surrounding them with symbols of science.

In Exploratory Hall’s tile floor, the circles represent splashes of water droplets, the squiggles are the outline of a double helix, and the Fibonacci spiral shows up cutting through it all. The “Periodic Tables” provide a visual pun. Photo by Alexis Glenn

Take a look at that wood panel. It looks like a series of small squares offset with larger squares, and for some designers, that would be decorative enough for a wall hanging. But Exploratory Hall’s panel depicts the geometric derivation of theFibonacci spiral, in which each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. While STEM aficionados might recognize it, others will need ...

Brain Pickings  5/29/13 Maria Popova

Intuition Pumps: Daniel Dennett on the Dignity and Art-Science of Making Mistakes

“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself.”

“If you are not making mistakes, you’re not taking enough risks,” Debbie Millman counseled. “Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before,”…. Daniel Dennett, one of our greatest living philosophers, offers a set of thinking tools — “handy prosthetic imagination-extenders and focus holders” — that allow us to “think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions” — to enhance your cognitive toolkit. ……

Though most of his 77 “intuition pumps” address concrete questions, a dozen are “general-purpose” tools that apply deeply and widely, across just about any domain of thinking. The first of them is also arguably the most useful yet most uncomfortable: making mistakes.

Dennett echoes Dostoyevsky (“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”) and offers the key to making productive mistakes:

The chief trick to making ...

Brain Pickings April 2013 by Maria Popova

How to keep one of the greatest human gifts from becoming one of our most cumbersome curses.

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider,” 

Charles Jencks

Charles Alexander Jencks (born 21 June 1939) is an American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of Modernismand Postmodernism are widely read in architectural circles. Jencks now lives in Scotland where he designs landscape sculpture and writes on cosmogenic art.[1]

Garden of Cosmic Speculation

Open to the public only one day a year, the Garden of Cosmic Speculation takes science and maths as its inspiration. Quite simply, there isn’t another garden like it in the world.

Northumberlandia, the Lady of the North: A supine land goddess makes her debut Washington Post Friday Nov. 23, 2012 

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Jencks notes that humans have been “speculating on cosmic events and existence for at least 80,000 years.” But only in recent decades have we come to understand the science of its origins and workings. This has led to a shift in our consciousness that he explores in his work.

“We are living in a new paradigm. We now know the universe back to the beginning; we know so many things that upset the modernist Newtonian worldview,” he said. Jencks and other contemporary artists — Maya Lin, for example ...

“We have a greater capacity to change the world today than the kings and presidents of just 50 years ago.”

Tech Crunch Jan. 20, 2012

Editor’s Note: Guest contributor Justin Rosenstein is the co-founder of Asana.

We have a greater capacity to change the world today than the kings and presidents of just 50 years ago. Whether you’re a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place. Yet I fear that our industry is squandering its opportunity and its talent. In companies large and small, great minds are devoting their lives to endeavors that, even if wildly successful, fail to do great things.

51 minute video overview of Asana PM software by Justin Rosenstein …L-T vision starts at min 26″- Luna platformhttp://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/finally-facebook-co-founder-opens-the-curtain-on-two-year-old-asana/ … …

Luna http://asana.com/luna/  is Asana’s Lunahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asana_(web_application) … in-house framework for writing great web apps… lots to learn here