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So Bhisma has requested a few long posts on the cognitive neuroscience conference I’m currently attending in Oxford (that’s my life - one long, endless round of conferences…). The conference, properly named the Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience, began on Monday at the Department of Experimental Psychology. Some thoughts on the sessions:
First talk was by [...]

A review and summary of the presentations given on the first day of the TEDMED3 conference in Philadelphia.

Wired recently wrote an article on how bloggers are violating gag rules at conferences. In the article, they mention the organiser of the TEDMED3 conference I’m going to tomorrow:
Richard Saul Wurman, organizer of the long-running TED conference (which is now TedMed), said reporting restrictions are meaningless, a smoke screen to make attendees think they will [...]

Long-time followers of my weblog (all three of you) will remember that back in 2001, I was a speaker at the 11th Technology Entertainment Design conference in Monterey, California. It was an incredible experience and the old line, “Yeah, I had dinner with Matt Groening,” never fails to impress.
The idea behind the TED conferences is [...]

Game Developers Conference 2003 Coverage - Adrenaline Vault’s providing a nice ongoing summary of the highlights of this year’s GDC. Avault generally does these types of things well - they have a high quality of writing that feels much more personal.

The Speaker Wishlist for the Mars Society 2003 Convention - Chris Isaak? ‘Any of the cast of Survivor’? Arnold Schwarzennager? (sic) Any female astronauts? I hate to think of who made this list, and how they did it. And in any case, isn’t it a bit late to be signing up speakers for a date [...]

Most amusing question asked at the BA Festival of Science: “Do people who ate goat brains when they were young get schizophrenia?”
This was at a panel session of top UK psychologists and neuroscientists. After the laughter died down, one of the panel members volunteered, “I ate goat brains when I was young.” A few seconds [...]

Thanks to a generous grant from Trinity College at Cambridge University, I was able to attend the full week-long British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Festival of Science in Leicester this year, from September 9th to 13th. This is a brief report of what I learned there.

I’m off to the British Association Festival of Science in Leicester tomorrow, and will be back on Friday or Saturday, so updates will be less frequent than usual next week.

With its magnificent riches, Trinity College has awarded me a grant to attend the British Association Annual Festival of Science this September in Leicester. It’s a five day long convention of British scientists covering all the different disciplines of science, and should be great fun. It’ll also give me an opportunity to check out the [...]