Brain

Understanding the human brain – Jeff Bezos commencement address to Princeton University (30/05/2010)

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Speeches

Understanding the human brain – Jeff Bezos commencement address to Princeton University (30/05/2010)

What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift. Kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy. They’re given, after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself...

Studying the brain of a Lunatic

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Studying the brain of a Lunatic

Doctors seized upon the general paralytic brain as an object that had much to tell them not only about the course of general paralysis, but also about mental disease and neurophysiology more broadly. Softening of the brain might have...