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Cheezy video but explains what mind maps are from the guy who apparently came up with the concept.

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.

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

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.

A great article on gender - we're more alike than you might think even though we often take different paths to similar results. Interesting...

Take that you close-minded caffeine hating heebs!

Oh, and I can be bribed to support your ideas, just buy me a coffee...

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.

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.

Just in case you needed any further justification to quite smoking.