Dementia (.... and Joe Biden)
Navigating the complexities of cognition and brain ageing
https://www.brainpizza.com/p/dementia-and-joe-biden
Dementia (.... and Joe Biden)
Navigating the complexities of cognition and brain ageing
Talking Heads is a Waterstones science book of the year!
‘Offering radical new perspectives on the ways we communicate, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara's luminous volume explores what happens in our brain when we talk and the wide-reaching effects of this deeply human activity on individuals, groups and societies.’
https://www.waterstones.com/blog/the-best-books-of-2023-popular-science#mathematics#memory #politics #culture #imagination #imaginedcommunities #sharedreality #nations #nationalism #ourworldsTalking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds eBook : O'Mara, Shane: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds eBook : O'Mara, Shane: Amazon.co.uk: Books
“Old man yells at cloud”: melancholy, world-weary, with a little self-serving bellicosity
The emotion we have now, and don't realise it
https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/weltschermz-melancholy-world-weary
#substack #melancholy #emotion #newsletter #writing
“Old man yells at cloud”: melancholy, world-weary, with a little self-serving bellicosity
The emotion we have now, and don't realise it
https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-neuroscience-of-nationalism-c41
Nationalisms of every type and stripe - from ethnonationalism to ‘my country firsters’ to progressive nationalism to regressive nationalism to civic nationalism to so many others (Wiki does an admirable job of cataloguing them) - are one of the defining features of our political and social lives, right across the whole world...
#Collectivememory #imaginedcommunities #mentaltimetravel #agency #identity #substack
Notes on a neuroscience of nationalism (repost, with some extras, inc podcasts)
Collective memory, imagined communities, mental time travel, agency, identity
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds:
you can pre-order my new book!
It's finally arrived- all those hours distilled into a 3d object. I hope you'll enjoy it. It will challenge you to see our shared worlds in entirely new ways.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442354/talking-heads-by-omara-shane/9781847926487
https://amzn.eu/d/cCDuepU
or yr local bookshop
ISBN-10 1847926487
ISBN-13 978-1847926487
#amazon #bookshop #conversation #cognitive #nations #imagination #imaginedcommunities #sharedrealities #sharedworlds
Talking Heads
'Enjoyable' New Scientist
'Delightfully well-written, surprisingly reflective and humorous' Irish Times
'Thoughtful' Irish Independent
From neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and communication
We are social animals and talking is part of what makes us human.
But what purpose does conversation serve? In this revelatory tour of talking, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara explores why we communicate, what happens in our brains when we do it, and what it means for us as individuals, groups and societies.
How do our thoughts, memories, and conversations change our brains? What does it mean that we spend most of our thinking lives in a five-minute bubble around the present moment? Why does our sense of self solidify with age, even as we grow more forgetful? In what ways do we imagine futures together? And how do our nations begin as conversations?
Moving from the personal to the social and ultimately towards a radical new perspective on the defining phenomenon of our times, populist nationalism, this is the story of how conversation builds the worlds around us - and how, together, we can talk our way into a better tomorrow.
'Invaluable ... Fascinating' David Crystal, author of Let's Talk
https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/hypersleep-in-aliens-torpor-in-animals
My latest piece goes to some unusual places - Stepping metabolic rates down in a reliable way by modulating a deep brain region is now real. We’ll also explore a few parallels with the ‘hypersleep’ technology in science fiction. #aliens #hypersleep #torpor #hibernation
(If you like Aliens the movie, you might like this piece)
Hypersleep in Aliens, torpor in animals
Slowing your metabolism, energy conservation, and other metabolic marvels
The myth of the magical city: Why I hated Paris, why I was wrong, and what New York taught me
Prediction error is the problem: We bring the magic
https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-magical-city-why
And in other news, I've deleted my #twitter account and glad I did.
#froideur #paris #city #dublin #newyorkcity #prediction #predictionerror #imagination #dreams #memory
The myth of the magical city: Why I hated Paris, why I was wrong, and what New York taught me
Prediction error is the problem: We bring the magic
