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…

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Baby Boomers, Memory and Wisdom

The NYT Mag­a­zine today is devot­ed to the top­ic of Can Sci­ence Tell us Who Grows Wis­er. It may have been even bet­ter had the ques­tion been, “What Sci­ence Tells us About How we Can Grow Wis­er”, but it is a pret­ty good issue any­way. A very good arti­cle on The Older–and–Wiser Hypoth­e­sis. Quotes:  One of…

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We need 10 brains to process all this information…

A blog car­ni­val is a col­lec­tion of good blog posts around a spe­cif­ic top­ic, pub­lished usu­al­ly every 2 or 4 weeks. This time many car­ni­vals includ­ed some of our arti­cles, so we have a longer than usu­al list. Take a look at the top­ics you may be inter­est­ed in. The first 5 car­ni­vals did the most…

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Baby Boomers, Healthy Aging and Job Performance

There has been an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion about the issues relat­ed to the aging of the legal pro­fes­sion. Stephanie intro­duced us to the arti­cle “the Gray­ing Bar: let’s not for­get the ethics” by David Giacalone. In short: sta­tis­tics about the increas­ing ratio of lawyers over 70 in active prac­tice, on the one hand, and the general…

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Brain Fitness News

Anoth­er great week full of inter­est­ing and rel­e­vant arti­cles. We will start a new tra­di­tion: we will end up the week (either on Fri­day or dur­ing the week­end) with a round-up of the arti­cles we haven’t been able to com­ment on dur­ing the week. Please feel free to send us your sug­ges­tions too! (You can join…

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