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The Neuroscience of Creativity | PBS BrainCraft Video
Your brain uses lots of different pathways to communicate – which form complex networks in your brain. Creativity depends on the cooperation of two competing networks: one that generates spontaneous thoughts (the default mode network) and the executive control center of the brain that governs everything else. Our random, free-flowing thoughts that are worthy of further exploration pop into our consciousness when they’re recruited by the executive control network.
This is an installment of the PBS – BrainCraft series created by Vanessa Hill. If no film or link appears in this email, go to the blog to view it by clicking on the blog title above. If the film stops & starts in an annoying manner, press pause (lower left double bars ||) to let it buffer and get ahead of you. [Chuck Almdale]
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Memorial Plaque installed at Sageland Ranch
During the Halloween Camp-out at Sageland Ranch in October, A beautiful memorial plaque was installed by longtime friend to Keith Axelson, Andrew Nawrocky. Andrew set the bronze plaque with great skill to forever commemorate Keith’s life and love of the natural world. The Axelson family wants to thank Andrew for designing, coordinating its production and of course, setting it so masterfully on the granite boulder that stands so grandly on Sageland Ranch.
— Lys Axelson
Keith Axelson.
The large granite boulder.
Andrew prepares the landing zone.
Fitting the plaque.
Andrew and Lys with the final installation.
Humans are special, and we got that way thanks to evolution and natural selection. The proof is right there in our bodies! From anatomy to genes, here are some stories of how you got to be the way you are.
This is an installment of the PBS – It’s OK to be Smart series. If no film or link appears in this email, go to the blog to view it by clicking on the blog title above. If the film stops & starts in an annoying manner, press pause (lower left double bars ||) to let it buffer and get ahead of you. [Chuck Almdale]
Snowy Owl Invasion | Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Snowy Owls lead nomadic lives and travel vast distances from year to year searching for productive feeding areas. Some years, most recently in the winter of 2011/2012, conditions cause them to come south in great numbers. Get an intimate look at these white owls from the north through video and photographs captured by the Cornell Lab’s, Gerrit Vyn.
A film from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. If no film or link appears in this email, go to the blog to view it by clicking on the blog title above. If the film stops & starts in an annoying manner, press pause (lower left double bars ||) to let it buffer and get ahead of you. The Lab is a member-supported organization; they welcome your membership and support. [Chuck Almdale]
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