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Interview with the man with the highest IQ in the world. His opinions are thought provoking and surprising.

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mfbUhs2PVY&feature=related

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA0gjyXG5O0&feature=related

Whoa... big find.

Quoted: Rather than sticking to a single DNA script, human brain cells harbor astonishing genomic variability, according to scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The findings, to be published in the Aug. 5, 2009, advance online edition of Nature, could help explain brain development and individuality, ...

Quoted: Of course, maybe some other parasite is making him say that.

And, oh yeah, try meditation

Quoted: When something bright or novel flashes, it tends to automatically win the competition for the brain’s attention, but that involuntary bottom-up impulse can be voluntarily overridden through a top-down process that Dr. Desimone calls “biased competition.” He and colleagues have found that neurons in the prefrontal cortex — the brain’s planning center — start oscillating in unison and send signals directing the visual cortex to heed something else.

Quoted: She recommends starting your work day concentrating on your most important task for 90 minutes. until that first break, don’t get distracted by anything else, because it can take the brain 20 minutes to do the equivalent of rebooting after an interruption. “Multitasking is a myth,” Ms. Gallagher said. “You cannot do two things at once. The mechanism of attention is selection: it’s either this or it’s that.”

I've often thought about this. SO true...

Quoted: Sometimes, muscles twitch. We're used to going online to solve every mystery in our lives; who wouldn't run to the Web if his tongue began to twitch?

Holy crap! Extracting images directly by brain measurement of the visual cortex!

I feel like this is really big.

Quoted: Infants perceive color in the right hemisphere of the brain, researchers report, while adults do the job in the brain's left hemisphere.

Fascinating stuff -- less than 20 minutes, but well paced and very thought provoking.

Quoted: Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening ...

Incredible.

Quoted: “we watched connections get weak and disappear.”