by Susan Keown | Feb 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Jes Burns of Oregon Public Broadcasting won the multimedia category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for her story on the secrets of a good night of shut-eye. In her piece — described by the judges as “highly engaging” — Burns visits scientists who are...
by Susan Keown | Jul 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
In her new book, “The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain is Different and How to Understand Yours,” Dr. Chantel Prat (@ChantelPratPhD), a University of Washington scientist, explains the unique features of everyone’s brains and why these differences are important....
by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In his first book, “A Field Guide to Thinking Errors: Using Neuroscience to Classify, Avoid, and Exploit Our Biases,” André Golard explains that all people are prone to errors in thinking, such as confirmation bias and loss aversion, and offers readers tools to...
by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
ICYMI: This March 2020 story by Rachel Tompa (@Rachel_Tompa) for the Allen Institute explains how researchers demonstrated that asymmetry in neurons’ connections within the brain, established by chance in early development, explains why individual flies behave very...
by Wayt Gibbs | Nov 21, 2016 | Past Events
Can the way we think change our health? Members and guests met with journalist Erik Vance to discuss his new book, Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal, after his Nov. 21 talk at Town Hall Seattle....
