eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 09 2007 | brain, mindmapping, mindmap, Tony Buzan, video
click to playCheezy video but explains what mind maps are from the guy who apparently came up with the concept.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 27 2007 | memory, brain, howto
Helpful memory techniques based on taking notes in your own words and then memorizing them. Anecdotally, this sort of thing has worked for me in the past as well.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 20 2007 | news, Google, Larry Page, AI, brain
A quick one-minute presentation from Larry Page RE: artifical intelligence and our brains. Are we that far off?
Quoted: From the AAAS Annual Conference in San Francisco: Larry Page takes the stage and talks about artificial intelligence and how the human brain compares to that of an operating system.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 11 2006 | books, philosophy, mind, brain, science, framework, pattern, wishlist
This looks like an interesting book purporting to be a new conceptual framework for understanding the human mind. You can read the first couple of chapters for free in a PDF.
Quoted: Academic & Scholarly, Non-fiction Book Publishing On-demand - Brown Walker Press
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eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 16 2006 | brain, expert, research, science
This is a pretty fascinating (but pretty long) article about how expert minds work differently than amateur minds... I'm Dotting the "print" layout so you can get it all in one go...
Quoted: Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well.
ShareViewed: 6 Times- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 04 2006 | gender, brain
A great article on gender - we're more alike than you might think even though we often take different paths to similar results. Interesting...
ShareViewed: 20 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 05 2006 | coffee, caffeine, science, psychology, brain, news
Take that you close-minded caffeine hating heebs!
Oh, and I can be bribed to support your ideas, just buy me a coffee...
ShareViewed: 2 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2006 | science, brain, news
Quoted: The team conducted a series of experiments to pinpoint the brain activity associated with introspection and that linked to sensory function. They found that the brain assumes a robotic functionality when it has to concentrate all its efforts on a difficult, timed task – only becoming "human" again when it has the luxury of time.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 07 2006 | science, exercise, birth, brain, hippocampus, news
Interesting study on mice re: post-birth hippocampal development. While it's dangerous to extrapolate to humans, it's also kind of fun...
Quoted: Exercising during pregnancy might have unanticipated benefits – at least in mice, a new study suggests. Pups born to active mums developed bigger brains a few weeks after birth.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 11 2005 | smoking, alcohol, alcoholism, brain, health, news
Just in case you needed any further justification to quite smoking.
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- mike - Mar 09 2007
- eric - Mar 09 2007
You must be Eric's friend before you can comment on this Fave.I have one of Buzan's early books (1996) - The Mind Map Book (subtitle: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential).
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0452273226
He's one of those self-help gurus that has made a career by extolling the virtues of a single gimick, and blowing it out of proportion. I think Mind Maps are an interesting way to create semi-structured documents that capture subtle relationships - and they're even an interesting brainstorming technique - but they are not going to improve the power of your mind!
Mind Maps are totally equivalent to an OUTLINE, despite the mumbo-jumbo claims that there is some hidden power in the lines being "curved", "radiant", and "free-flowing". Outlines are cool - and they help us organize our thoughts. Mind Maps are just a different way of making an outline.
For what it's worth, after watching some of this hoo-ha this morning, I agree with you. I can't believe how big this cottage industry is when the best tools still seem to be paper and pen. The benefits certainly seem far-fetched.
Send Eric a friend request or a personal message instead.