Digital brain health firm Headspace raises $34 million to scale up meditation service and transform mind health

. Jared Leto, Ryan Seacrest, Jes­si­ca Alba Invest in Head­space With the Chernin Group (The Wrap): “Head­space, a lead­ing dig­i­tal health and well­ness media brand, has closed a sig­nif­i­cant financ­ing round (Edi­tor’s note: $34m) to expand its award-win­n­ing med­i­ta­tion, mind­ful­ness and health-relat­ed media platform

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Brain Teasers and Games, for Kids and Adults

In case you missed them, here you have a few recent brain teasers and games. t is always good to stim­u­late our minds and to learn a bit about how our brains work. Novem­ber 2011: Math Brain Teas­er: Unfin­ished The­sis Octo­ber 2011: Archimedes Grave Octo­ber 2011: Opti­cal Illu­sions @ Nation­al Geo­graph­ic Sep­tem­ber 2011: A Brain Teas­er for each Cog­ni­tive Ability…

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Global Agenda Council: the Challenges of Gerontology?

I announced two months ago (Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cils: The Chal­lenges of Geron­tol­ogy) that I had been invit­ed to join a very stim­u­lat­ing new ini­tia­tive by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum. — Update (Novem­ber 2nd, 2008): my pro­pos­al is to cre­ate a Glob­al Con­sor­tium for Neu­rocog­ni­tive Fit­ness Inno­va­tion. Thank you for your com­ments below! — Next month, 700 experts…

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