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01/17/2011 22:36

Overclocking the Brain! But Can It Handle It?

An interesting aspect of living in a crowded city is that you often hear the most intimate details of inter-personal relationships.  For this we can thank the cellphone. These conversations usually take the form of Partner A ranting at Partner B about Partner B’s attention to Outsider...

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01/08/2011 20:49

Understanding How the Brain Works and Addiction Recovery Programs

Addictions to drugs, alcohol and gambling have powerful systematic holds on the brain.  Luckily, the efficacy of recovery programs has increased over the years largely through trial and error.  The 20th century saw the noticeable rise in recovery success using, among other things, step...

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01/08/2011 18:53

Review of "The Green Hornet"

I attended a studio preview for the Seth Rogen movie “The Green Hornet”. This non-3D version lacked titles and was still being edited.  I am sure there will be significant differences in the film when it is released on January 14.  Here is a summary of my reactions: Faithfulness to...

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01/04/2011 23:53

Will Brain Enhancement Replace Steroids as a Sports Scandal?

  Steroids were the sports scandal of the last decade (and if football comes clean the topic could dominate this decade too).  For the athlete, steroids and hormone therapies provided growth, healing and stamina in the muscles. Will policing sophistication...

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12/29/2010 22:05

How the Kinect is like the Brain

For the past two years, I have been obsessively reading through the growing library of general neuroscience books (the ones that don’t cost $80 – those are for people who know science.)   To get a sense of how quickly this field is exploding search Amazon and sort the results by the...

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12/22/2010 01:17

Scripts Page Opened

Descriptions and links to Amazon Kindle versions of my two most recent scripts, The Lurid Art and Cells,  we posted onto the new Scripts page.  Watch this page for more scripts in the near future.

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12/20/2010 10:06

Website launched

Our new website has been launched today. This site will include my new blog about marketing, new media and the arts.  It will also include various reviews, scripts, comics, videos, etc.

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12/20/2010 00:22

When a Twitter Followers List Becomes a Political Issue

You know it’s coming.  When it does, the effect on Twitter could be disastrous.  It will happen something like this – First, there will be a news report that some political candidate is following a skinhead or anarchist (take your menace to society of choice) on Twitter. ...

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12/19/2010 12:06

See Art for Free (sort of) in New York City Museums

Many art lovers find growing admission prices to be a barrier to exploring the amazing art in the über expensive New York.  Museums have responded by offering different ways to visit for free.  Below is a list of free admittance policies compiled from the various websites of these...

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