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    Richard Cytowic: Neurology and Synesthesia

    by Plutopia News Network December 14, 2020
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    “We live in a paradox in which digital tech alleviates social isolation in some ways even as it worsens it in others. It may be fashioning wholly new brain pathways for good or ill in ways we neither notice nor can predict. While we are technically more connected to one another than ever before, we bond on media platforms engineered to make outrage and indignation infectious. They exploit the psychological principle that emotion, like yawning, is highly contagious.” ~ Richard Cytowic, “Digital Distractions: Energy Drain and Your Brain on Screens”

    Plutopia’s Maggie Duval interviews Richard Cytowic. Richard is best known for having rediscovered synesthesia — the automatic cross–coupling of the senses — and returning it to mainstream science after decades of obscurity. His work bridges the gap between art and science. His book Wednesday Is Indigo Blue received the Montaigne Medal and is a book Oliver Sacks called “a unique and indispensable guide for anyone interested in how we perceive the world.” Dr. Cytowic is Professor of Neurology at George Washington University in Washington DC. This Plutopia interview is a fascinating discussion of the brain, including the impact of contemporary communications technologies on thinking, perception and attention.

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    • Ted Talk: “What Percentage of your Brain Do You Use”

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    • The Neurological Side of Neuropsychogy
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    Joe Nick Patoski: Robert Ealey’s Blues

    by Plutopia News Network December 7, 2020
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    Joe Nick Patoski has been writing about Texas and Texans for 40 years. He’s written about Texas music, and hosts the weekly Texas Music Hour of Power on Saturday nights.…

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    by Plutopia News Network December 1, 2020
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    Founders of the Society for Participatory Medicine discuss e-patients and Covid-19.

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    Jon Lebkowsky: Truth In The Time of the Internet

    by Plutopia News Network November 16, 2020
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    Plutopia News Network’s Jon Lebkowsky gave this talk on “truth in the time of the Internet” on November 3, 2020, at a virtual EFF-Austin meeting. Jon had been thinking about…

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    by Plutopia News Network October 26, 2020
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    Patrick Lichty: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”

    by Plutopia News Network October 19, 2020
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    Patrick Lichty is a media artist, writer, futurist, curator and designer of over 30 years. He’s currently a professor of media design at Zayed University in Dubai, where he is…

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