At NPSC we know that one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy is to learn new things. Unfortunately, with all of the information available to us, it can feel almost impossible to find the time to sift through the web to find the gems.
So, we’ve decided to do it for you! Every Friday, you can find five new articles or videos from the week that will stretch your mind, fuel your spirit, and feed your brain.
“Thai soccer coach meditated with boys to calm them in the cave. We can all learn from them.” by Kristin Clark Taylor, washingtonpost.com
“He taught them how to keep themselves calm; a minor but magnificent distinction.”
“Particle Accelerator Reveals Hidden Faces in Damaged 19th-Century Daguerreotype Portraits” by Meilan Solly, smithsonianmag.com
“Using an experimental X-ray flurescence process, researchers mapped contours of the plates and produced digital copies of images previously lost to time.”
“Everything You Hear on Film is a Lie” by Tasos Frantzolas, ted.com
“Sound design is built on deception — when you watch a movie or TV show, nearly all of the sounds you hear are fake. In this audio-rich talk, Tasos Frantzolas explores the role of sound in storytelling and demonstrates just how easily our brains are fooled by what we hear.”
“Why Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget” by Charles B. Brenner, Jeffrey B. Zacks, scientificamerican.com
“So there’s the thing we know best: The common and annoying experience of arriving somewhere only to realize you’ve forgotten what you went there to do. We all know why such forgetting happens: we didn’t pay enough attention, or too much time passed, or it just wasn’t important enough. But a ‘completely different’ idea comes from a team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame. The first part of their paper’s title sums it up: ‘Walking through doorways causes forgetting.’”
“A Pittsburgh-Area Restaurant That Trades Fussy for Fun” by Michael Meyer, nytimes.com
Okay, maybe this article isn’t typical Brain Food material—but we had to highlight a New York Times story about a Pittsburgh restaurant!
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