by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, video
For many athletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics, safety helmets will be an essential part of their athletic gear. Nikhil Gupta, a mechanical engineer at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute, explains how safety helmets are designed, constructed and tested....
by Darlene Cavalier | Sep 16, 2009 | Dr. John Reports, News
A brief, “edutaining” first-person account on the Science of Lying, from our own Dr. John Ohab. This Pentagon Channel report investigates whether neuroimaging techniques can be used to detect deception. Dr. Bhatt previously appeared as a guest on the...
by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 4, 2009 | Blog, News, Science Education
Discover Magazine just posted videos from a panel discussion titled “Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain,” which I helped put together in November at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. (I’m a senior advisor at Discover.) The National Science...
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 13, 2008 | Blog, Interviews
Daniel J. Levitin, a rock musician and producer turned neuroscientist and author of “The World in Six Songs” and “This is Your Brain on Music” wants to know. Do Christmas songs help put you in the holiday mood? If so, any song in particular?...
by Darlene Cavalier | Sep 26, 2008 | Blog, Citizen Science
Thanks, Jacquie, for this interesting news. Jacquie: “This football season brings us perhaps the utimate citizen science sacrifice: The NY Times reports 12 NFL players have donated thier brains (post-humously of course) to enable scientists to explore the long...
