Keep Your Brain Nimble as You Age and Brain Fitness Events

Some good links today:

1) Keep Your Brain Nim­ble as You Age
MSNBC — May 13, 2007
“If using your com­put­er as a men­tal gym sounds good to you, SharpBrains.com’s Fer­nan­dez sug­gests ask­ing a few ques­tions first to deter­mine a product’s…”

2) Great blog by Stan­ford Busi­ness School’s Jack­son library, includ­ing an announce­ment of an upcom­ing lec­ture there by our very own Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg and Alvaro Fer­nan­dez Pump­ing I.Q., not Iron

3) Some blog car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of blog posts around spe­cif­ic topics)

• Careers in Mid­dle Age and Baby Boomers
• Work At Home Moms and Dads
• Edu­ca­tion
  
• Per­son­al Development
• Pos­i­tive Thinking
• Liv­ing by Design
• Vic­tor-Towards Bet­ter Life
• Online Edu­ca­tion
• Life, Growth and Leadership

We are going to have a busy week, so we will prob­a­bly write a bit less than is usu­al, but we’ll do our best to keep you informed!

• Wednes­day in San Fran­cis­co: Life­long Learn­ing and Brain Fit­ness Event, co-spon­sored by the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging, the Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tutes of UC-Berke­ley and SFSU, and SharpBrains
• Thurs­day: lec­ture at Stan­ford Busi­ness School and Brain Fit­ness Pan­el at the Neu­rotech Indus­try Conference

If you are attend­ing any of these events, please let us know! We love to meet our readers!