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Partial Lecture Schedule for 2020

Feb 7-9, 2020 - Menlo Park, CA - SciFoo
Jul 26-30, 2020 - Vancouver, Canada - Attending TED 2020 2020
Nov 12, 2020 - Corvallis, OR - Oregon State University Provost’s Lecture Series

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From the Blog

Your brain constantly re-calibrates its timing.

Hear my friend Alan Burdick discuss his new book on time perception...
Discussing dreaming with Henry Rollins

I spent an evening speaking at the Rubin Museum in NYC with punk rock legend, writer, and spoken word artist Henry Rollins. We discussed the origin, meaning, neuroscience, and bizarreness of dreams.
Remembering a trail blazer - Francis Crick

Francis Crick, one of the premier biologists of the 20th century, passed away July 28, 2004, in San Diego. On his 88th birthday, I brought him chocolates and spent the day with him in his home in La Jolla.
Discovering amulets inside the mummy

I posted before about my scanning of a 3,000 year old mummy, Neskhons. Now, by analyzing the data in several different ranges of electron density, I've found something unexpected: inside the mummy's torso are 4 small funerary amulets.