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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:52:58 -0800

TED talk: James Geary on metaphor – “conceptual synesthesia”
James Geary’s website
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:19:08 -0800

free ebook: ‘What Matters Now’ from Seth Godin
“Here are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:52:56 -0800

new book – ‘The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life’
The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life by Len Fisher (Basic Books, 2009) (link for UK) One of the...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:05:16 -0800

new book – ‘Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger’
Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger (MacSci) by Jeff Wise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) (link for UK) Fear is a...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:12:53 -0800

new book – ‘Stuff’
Stuff by Daniel Miller (Policy, 2009) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: Things make us just as much as we...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:05:08 -0800

‘We Feel Fine’ book & website
We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris (Scribner, 2009) Product description from the...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:27:59 -0800

new or coming soon – ‘Consciousness’ by Christopher S. Hill
Though the publication date says Nov 30, Amazon.com promises “In stock on December 4″ for Consciousness by...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:38:10 -0800

New book – ‘Ten Years of Viewing from Within’ from Journal of Consciousness Studies
Ten Years of Viewing from Within (Journal of Consciousness Studies) ed. by Claire Petitmengin (Imprint Academic, 2009). (link...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:44:49 -0800

new book – ‘Mysterious Minds’
Mysterious Minds: The Neurobiology of Psychics, Mediums, and Other Extraordinary People ed. by Stanley Krippner and Harris L....
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:05:11 -0800

‘What Are Dreams?’ on Nova (PBS) this week
This week’s NOVA asks ‘What Are Dreams?’ The full program will be available online starting Nov 25 through...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:26:42 -0800

‘Migraine Art’
A recent library find—Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson (North Atlantic...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:40 -0800

coming soon – ‘The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures’ by Nicholas Wade
The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade is a preorder as I’m writing but due out...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:00:33 -0800

coming soon – ‘Reading in the Brain’
Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention by Stanislaus Dehaene is due out this Tues (Nov 12) from...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:45:19 -0700

new book – ‘The Big Questions’ by Steven E. Landsburg
The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics by Steven E....
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:47:12 -0700

‘Fall of Sleep’ by Jean-Luc Nancy
Found via the Book Bench at the New Yorker: Fall of Sleep by Jean-Luc Nancy, tr. Charlotte Mandell (Fordham University Press,...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:06:41 -0700

new book – ‘The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind’
The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind by John S. Allen (Harvard University Press, 2009) (link for...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:58:20 -0700

“It’s all in your mind….”
“It was all in your mind,” Chade told me sometime later, and it stung that he dismissed so lightly all that I had...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:26:51 -0700

new from Malcolm Gladwell – ‘What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures’
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, a collection of his New Yorker articles (Little,...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:52:45 -0700

new “Case for Books” by Robert Darnton
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by historian Robert Darnton (PublicAffairs, 2009). (link for UK) Product...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:59:30 -0700

new book – ‘The Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom’
Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson with Richard Mendius (New...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:50:44 -0700

new book – ‘Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things’
Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things by Ann Taves...
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mymindonbooks posted a blog entry

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:40:46 -0700

new book – ‘Bright-Sided’ by Barbara Ehrenreich
Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan...
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