Mind Games @ Venture Capital Journal

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 6, 2008 |

The August issue of Ven­ture Cap­i­tal Jour­nal brings a very good piece on the emerg­ing brain fit­ness soft­ware  (also called “neu­rosoft­ware”) cat­e­go­ry: – Mind Games (sub­scrip­tion required) – Dakim, Lumos Labs, Posit Sci­ence and oth­er brain fit­ness star­tups are start­ing to gain mind share and cap­i­tal from ven­ture firms. The reporter and I spoke as Lumos…

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#15. Top fun and brainy Haikus. Yours?

By SharpBrains | July 26, 2008 |

Read­ers have con­tributed a good num­ber of haikus on brain-relat­ed top­ics. Below you have our favorite ones. Our favorite fun and brainy Haikus — Techne, the philoso­pher, won­ders: Solve the big ques­tions: How do I know when I know? Who knows the know­er? — Steve, the envi­ron­men­tal­ist, requests: Neu­ro­plas­tic good. Plas­tic, though lasts for­ev­er. Always recycle!

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Your Haiku, please?

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 21, 2007 |

In our Top 50 Brain Teasers post, we con­clud­ed with the chal­lenge: #50. Can you write a haiku describ­ing your expe­ri­ence doing some of the pre­vi­ous teasers? The sim­ple rules: write 3 lines, which don’t need to rhyme, con­tain­ing 5,7, and 5 syl­la­bles. You can leave your haiku as a com­ment for extra points… There…

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