Memory games: the mind and its palaces

Memory Games: The Mind and Its Palaces

If you’re a fan of the BBC series Sherlock, you almost certainly will remember Charles Augustus Magnussen, a peculiar villain whose particular brand of evildoing involved access to sensitive information, which he then would use as leverage against influential people as a means to muscle his way into power. Sherlock Holmes called him the “Napoleon…

The creative brain: bending, breaking and blending

The Creative Brain: Bending, Breaking and Blending

Based on the book The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World, authored by composer Anthony Brandt and neuroscientist David Eagleman, The Creative Brain is a 2018 documentary that Netflix made available for streaming on April 16. Eagleman is a New York Times bestselling author who wrote and hosted the documentary series The Brain…