Whole New Mind

“My name is Julie Ouedraogo and I currently attend the University of Maryland Baltimore County as a Media & Communications major. I read A Whole New Mind for one of my classes and was required to produce a new media artifact. As a tribute to this eye opening book, I decided to harness my left and right brain skills […]

John Cleese discovers laughter yoga and visits the same laughter club that I visited in Mumbai and wrote about in AWNM.  Fun viewing.     (HT: BoingBoing)

Entrepreneur is out with its annual Hot 100 — the magazine’s list of the fastest-growing businesses in America.   Who’s #1 this year?  It’s Simply Self Storage.

A few months ago, Michael Dell – the newly returned CEO of his eponymous computer company – said, “We are in the fashion business.” Yowza. Add another notch on design’s bed post.   Now, according to the FT, Microsoft has issued a research paper with the unlikely title “Fashion meets technology: Welcome to the future of PCs.” The paper’s author, Nadine […]

I may be the least musical person you’ve ever encountered.  And that’s something I’ve long regretted.  Now comes evidence deepening that regret, but offering a way for my kids to become more whole-minded than their dad. ScienceNow reports that Harvard’s Gottfried Schlaug and Boston College’s Ellen Winner and Marie Forgeard have used brain scans to produce the […]

Folk songs protesting government policy haven’t been in vogue since I was a toddler.  But Tom Chapin, who performs in the video below, might just have singlehandedly revived the tradition. (Major Hat Tip to Mike Sporer for hipping me to this song)

Incoming Bentley College president Gloria Cordes Larson says she wants her graduates to “be ethically grounded leaders who combine left brain analysis and business process skills with right brain qualities of creativity, empathy, and an appreciation for other perspectives.” (Source:  Boston Globe, 3/29/08)

Phil Shapiro is the creator of the AWNM group on Facebook and he’s looking for volunteers. He writes: “I’d love to videoconference with other fans about A Whole New Mind — and then share that videoconference online. I write for PCWorld.com and can give coverage of such an experiment on that web site.” I’ve offered […]

Everybody and their brother has sent me the video of neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor‘s recent talk at TED. One morning a few years ago, a blood vessel exploded on the left side of her brain. That gave the scientist an insider’s look at how her own brain operates. In particular, she came out of the […]

The early reviews are in and — whew — they’re pretty good. US News reviews A Whole New Mind in its March 28 edition. And the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram ran a smart and comprehensive review earlier this week.