Education @ New York Times

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 9, 2008

If you are inter­est­ed in edu­ca­tion reform, social entre­pre­neur­ship and ven­ture phil­antropy, grab a nice cap of tea or cof­fee and enjoy today’s spec­tac­u­lar edi­tion of the New York Times Mag­a­zine. Must read: insight­ful expert dis­cus­sion on How Many Bil­lion­aires Does It Take to Fix a School Sys­tem? Also: excel­lent pieces titled Self-Made Phil­an­thropists, on…

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Brain Fitness Newsletter: November Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 30, 2007 |

Here you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Exer­cise Mag­a­zine. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, check our Top­ics sec­tion, and sub­scribe to our month­ly newslet­ter at the top of this page if you want to receive this…

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Exercise On the Brain: a NYT OpEd

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 8, 2007 |

The New York Times just pub­lished an OpEd that may be throw­ing out the baby with the bath water. Exer­cise on the Brain extols the virtue of phys­i­cal exer­cise for brain health at the expense of oth­er impor­tant pil­lars such as good nutri­tion, stress man­age­ment and men­tal exer­cise. We have sent a Let­ter to the Edi­tor to clar­i­fy the…

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Feed Your Brain with Fun Neuroscience

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 25, 2007 |

To all new read­­ers-Wel­­come!. The Digg Tsuna­mi has brought over 40,000 vis­i­tors so far…and it con­tin­ues. We need to thank Andrey for his excel­lent tech­ni­cal work in help­ing us ride such a beau­ti­ful wave. Let me give you an overview of what you can find in our blog, bridg­ing neu­ro­science research and brain health/ “brain exercise”…

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Neuroplasticity = Lifelong Learning

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 30, 2007 |

I have just read the best blog post I have read in a loooong while, so let me share it here now. Brett Steen­barg­er is a Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try & Behav­ioral Sci­ences and a Trad­ing Psy­chol­o­gy expert who I had the plea­sure to inter­view a while back. He is a mas­ter at trad­ing, learn­ing, teaching…

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Trading performance psychology and self-talk

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 28, 2007 |

Giv­en the stock mar­ket per­for­mance these days, Brett Steen­barg­er offers time­ly tips and resources for traders on man­ag­ing stress and self-con­­fi­­dence: Updat­ed Psy­chol­o­gy of Trad­ing Resources, includ­ing a list of rel­e­vant blogs such as Afraid to Trade blog, Trad­er Psy­chol­o­gy blog, the Head Coach blog, his Stock Mar­ket Psy­chol­o­gy blog and Smart Trad­er blog. He…

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