If you're interested in synesthesia, check out this lecture I gave at the University of Sydney in Australia.
Do you think you might have synesthesia? Go to synesthete.org to take the tests and find out. For more about synesthesia, see my book Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
Can we reproduce our brains on other media (say, on computers, or out of beer cans and tennis balls)?
Well before we understand how brains work, we may find ourselves able to digitally copy the brain's structure and able to download the conscious mind into a computer. What are the possibilities and challenges?
Posthumanism asks what happens when our technologies allow humans to enhance intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities beyond what biology can give us. Think bionics on crack.
What could explain Anders Breivik's shooting attack in Oslo, Norway? While this was being debated from the angles of politics, religion, and sociology, I wanted to ask this from the viewpoint of neurobiology.
Hear the actress Emily Blunt (Young Victoria, Devil Wears Prada) read "The Cast" from Sum. She is one of the dozens of terrific actors who read for the audio book.
Sum was selected as Book of the Week by both The Guardian newspaper and The Week newsmagazine.
SUM has been turned into an opera at the Royal Opera House in London (Composer: Max Richter, Director: Wayne McGregor). The London Evening Standard hails the opera as "immersive, meditative and sweetly fascinating". Read about the background of the collaboration in Wired.
