New Summit Speakers from Lumosity, ideas42, UCSD

The Agen­da of the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit is look­ing more fas­ci­nat­ing by the day.  We’re glad to announce three more excel­lent speak­ers: Dr. Daniel Stern­berg leads the analy­sis of Lumosity’s data­base of human cog­ni­tive per­for­mance, which recent­ly result­ed in the pub­li­ca­tion of the study “The largest human cog­ni­tive per­for­mance dataset reveals insights into the effects of lifestyle…

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Exercising the body is exercising the mind

I apol­o­gize for the long delay in get­ting back to this col­umn but I have a good excuse. We just recent­ly had a baby, and boy, that takes care right there of the phys­i­cal exer­cise need. Between car­ry­ing the baby upstairs and down­stairs, run­ning to get the baby, get­ting out of the bed and picking…

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