{"id":1196,"date":"2010-07-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/07\/19\/sunday-night-brain-salon\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T08:00:00","slug":"sunday-night-brain-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/07\/19\/sunday-night-brain-salon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night – brain salon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\t\t Nice slow day.. spent the morning working on a talk I’m giving in Belgium in a few weeks to a group of grad students from all over the world. Diane helped me edit the talk.. she’s such a huge help in getting the message right in my talks !..<\/p>\n

I also spent a few hours figuring out how to get some of my equipment oversees afordably\u00a0 and safely .. It’s no longer very easy to fly with it on a plane. It just looks too dangerous..\u00a0\u00a0 I also had to figure out how to get the stuff to run on 220 volts instead of our 110. That was fun and a bit nail biting.. as I didn’t ‘t want to blow anything up.<\/p>\n

Mid day we took a nice break as three friends converged on the house.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Paul,<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Bob a<\/p>\n

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and Herb<\/p>\n

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\u00a0all showed up to help on pauls; upcoming ‘Beekman on the Brain’ show. Pauls a wonderful guy.. he’s a puppeteer and a performance artist. He used to lead the Bread and Puppet pageants in Glover.. in the 80’s and 90’s he had a show called ‘Beekman’s world’ that turned oHe lives in LA.. but comes back here to visit hois daughetr and granddaughter. n many kids to science.. he’s one of my inspirations in my current work.. anyway.. Paul’s doing this stage show on the brain..Since I know next to nothing about the brain, d my job is\u00a0 to introduce Paul to folks who do. Boob is a neurosychologist from down in Cape Cod.. he’s up here frequently to visit friends like Herb..\u00a0\u00a0 Bob’s specializes in neuropathology\u00a0 and neuro pharmacology.. <\/p>\n

Herb I know from the haunted forest.. he was the sponsor of our 20 foot talk robotic pumpkin.. aka ‘projectX’. He works in criminal justice…<\/p>\n

The five of us (Diane hung out with us fro a while too !) talked for several hours about what kides need to kow about the brain.. and how to get that info across in a fun and interesting way fro kids 8-12.\u00a0\u00a0 It was so much fun listening to Bob and Paul go back and forth on how the brain worked and how to show it.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I felt like I was running an 19th century intellectual salon in my house.. <\/p>\n

We broke for a delicious lunch Diane had made.. then dove back in for a couple of more hours of\u00a0 brain talk.. <\/p>\n


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This is really a fun project.. stuff anyone out there know any good stuff to include in a presentation on the brain for kids ? Got any good demonstration ideas ? We’re all ears.. and medula oblongati, and hypocanthi and preforntal cortices.. <\/p>\n

ok.. well.. this<\/i> brain is tired.. so <\/p>\n

nite all.. nite Sam
-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice slow day.. spent the morning working on a talk I’m giving in Belgium in a few weeks to a group of grad students from all over the world. Diane helped me edit the talk.. she’s such a huge help in getting the message right in my talks !.. I also spent a few hours … Continue reading Sunday night – brain salon<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}