Tara Thiagarajan, Founder of Brainnovations Winner Sapien Labs, on building a global platform for brain research that truly captures the diversity of humanity

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 8, 2018

___ What sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test? I was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised to see the sig­nif­i­cant range and depth of knowl­edge shown by the judg­ing pan­el, lead­ing to very spe­cif­ic and use­ful ques­tions around the key chal­lenges to build our glob­al research plat­form. In a nutshell,…

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What cognitive skills are for (or, is the Internet making us dumber?)

By SharpBrains | May 22, 2014

(Click on the image above to play with the “giga­pan” NASA  built using 36,000 “self­ies”) NASA Releas­es Earth Day ‘Glob­al Self­ie’ Mosa­ic (press release): “For Earth Day this year, NASA invit­ed peo­ple around the world to step out­side to take a “self­ie” and share it with the world on social media. NASA released Thurs­day a…

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Searching for Brain Health and Fitness Information?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 21, 2008

A cou­ple of quick notes about our blog: 1- We have just added a Search box to allow you eas­i­ly find con­tent in our 600+ arti­cle archive. Take a look at the top of the right side­bar, and let us know if you have any feed­back! Btw, feel free to say Thank You to our reader…

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