Livewired is framed as a series of fascinating sketches about "things the brain can do." The author seems most eager to point out ways that our current understanding of the brain could lead to wild, sci-fi futures. For example, the brain can successfully navigate a changing body and environment, so why can't our things do the same? Why can't our house adjust to our needs automatically? Same with our cars, our businesses, our cities. Ideas like these are radically out there, but also seem quite plausible in the author's capable hands. From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain based on the most recent scientific discoveries about how it unceasingly adapts, re-creates, and formulates new ways of understanding the world we live in. Livewired is a deep, occasionally repetitive examination of brain plasticity. The author reads the audiobook and you can tell that he's profoundly excited by all this science. Reading a text copy, I might have become bogged down in the neurons, synapses, and other brain ephemera. Instead, she talks about her marriage and family and plastic surgery and meeting Richard Gere at a random party. I kept waiting for her to get to the "good part" and she never did. It's as if she wants to burn bridges (even saying how much she hates going in to do the talk show every day) but she doesn't have the guts to fully start the flames. Her personal wall is way up when it comes to telling deep truths about her marriage, kids, workplace, unusual friendships with a number of famous gays, and what her future holds.

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In 2010, Live Wire won the world's most lucrative crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing worth €125,000. [1] Plot summary [ edit ] Of course I bought this believing it was an autobiography, but the disappointment learning it was not, did not last long. Filled with funny stories-some I laughed out loud to and eagerly waited to hear more. T’was a little disappointed went the book ended—not because the book was disappointing, but because contrary to her beliefs, she is a natural storyteller. Learn to Swim Programme – following the Swim England Learn to Swim Framework with Stages 1-10 for children from 4 years old and Adult Learn to Swim sessions. Ripa and her husband ventured into the development side of entertainment when they began their NY-based production company, Milojo Productions. Milojo produces and creates content across multiple platforms, working with Bravo, Logo, VH1, E!, CMT, HGTV, WeTV, TLC, Oxygen, ABC Signature, Hulu and Discovery. Additionally, Milojo produced Emmy®-nominated documentary The Streak for ESPN and critically-acclaimed documentary Off The Rez for TLC.Eagleman does it again! This book was such a rewarding experience. The pacing was great, and he didn't get bogged down in the technical details that sometimes make this particular subject matter unapproachable to many. Not only did it have a thorough consolidation of many recent discoveries in neuroscience, but I was pleasantly surprised with a few new hypotheses to which I hadn't yet been exposed. One of Coben’s most exciting and multidimensional tales yet…a gripping tale.”— The Columbus Dispatch Because NOW I’ve had the pleasure of listening to her first book on audio, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, expertly narrated by Ripa herself. NOW I know that the woman can write. And NOW I know that she can write well. You will never think about your brain in the same way again. The brain is often portrayed as an organ with different regions dedicated to specific tasks. But that textbook model is wrong. The brain is a dynamic system, constantly modifying its own circuitry to match the demands of the environment and the body in which it finds itself. If you were to zoom into the living, microscopic cosmos inside the skull, you would witness tentacle-like extensions grasping, bumping, sensing, searching for the right connections to establish or forego, like denizens of a country establishing friendships, marriages, neighbourhoods, political parties, vendettas, and social networks. It's a mysterious kind of computational material, an organic three-dimensional textile that adjusts itself to operate with maximum efficiency.

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Move toward the data. The brain builds an internal model of the world, and adjusts whenever predictions are incorrect. I would have preferred a chronological insightful memoir about how a bus driver's daughter from South Jersey with zero Hollywood connections earned and achieved her celebrity status. David Eagleman once again takes the infinitely complex brain and explains it in language that a layperson can understand— and more importantly, enjoy. While I think the uninitiated should start with his older & more fundamental book, Incognito, this new book Livewired is just as fascinating. You’ll learn just how resilient and flexible our brains can be, and how technology is still nowhere close to being as powerful as them. David Eagleman är professor i neurovetenskap vid Stanford och har grundat företaget NeoSensory som tillverkar armband med vibrationsmotorer vilka kan ge döva förmågan att höra. Edit: I have had a lot of people commenting on this review so please let me clarify what I mean. I found factual inaccuracies in the book that I know to be inaccurate because there were about my own field of expertise. The inaccuracies were referenced but did not match what the reference material stated and I had to go to the reference source to clarify what was actually factually correct. I can not recommend a book that fails to reference correctly.Let's say there's a kid who has the worst case of epilepsy ever. Like, seizures every 20 minutes. Doctor says the only treatment is a hemispherectomy, which is exactly what it sounds like — removal of half the kid's brain. What do you think happens after the operation? How will the kid do? But this would be a very enjoyable read for Kelly's fans! My mom loves Kelly and continues to watch her every weekday. I think I'll pass this one along to her 💕 I can understand why she wouldn't want to speak ill of the show because she's still on it. But she doesn't talk about it at all. Not even the good stuff.

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Eagleman writes at a level that is easy for the average layperson to understand and he relies on anecdotes and case studies to aid the reader. goodreads و خواندن مطالب در مورد این کتاب متوجه شدم که کلمه قرنیه به جای لنز به کار رفته) و در موردش از یک پزشک اطلاعات کسب کردم و این ایراد تایید شد.

I listened to the audiobook read by Kelly Ripa. I always love it when celebrities read their own memoirs and/or "long-winded short stories" and to Kelly's credit, she did a superb job with the narration. worked in the travel industry. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, a pediatrician, and their four children.

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I was fired up by the rave WSJ review (9-5-20) but reader Sarah points out an egregious error, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... Live Wire is a 2011 mystery/ thriller novel by American writer, Harlan Coben. It is the tenth novel in his series of a crime solver and sports agent named Myron Bolitar. It is preceded in the series by Long Lost (2009) and succeeded by Home (2016). Eagleman peppers the book with stories and examples - my absolute favourite was the way that in the late 70s and early 80s, people thought that the IBM logo on floppy disks had changed from white to red. This was a result of one of these short term adaptations to compensate for an apparent oddity of the surroundings. You need to read the book to get the details, but the cause was apparently due to the people handling the disks (on which the logo was made up of a set of white horizontal lines) spent a lot of their time staring at VDUs, which contained lots of horizontal green lines of text. (My only slight doubt about this one is that I was a person who did this at the time, but I never noticed the effect, nor did I hear of it from anyone else.) Live Wire is a collection of stories from Ripa’s life. So it’s technically not a memoir, but the stories have the feel of one. In them, she delves into a wide variety of topics: marriage and children, her early years on Live with Regis Philbin, plastic surgery, her love for the Garden State, her most embarrassing life moments. And she tells the stories with great wisdom, a sharp wit, and revealing candor. Tази книга е изключително информативно и вълнуващо пътешествие в може би най-непознатата и необяснима територия - човешкия мозък.Livewired" is the catchy term David Eagleman has coined to describe the miraculous ability of the brain to adapt in concert with its environment and make sense of the world. With fluid prose and crystal-clear analogies, Eagleman explains the function of the cerebral cortex as a general computing machine that can take any kind of input from environmental sensors — e.g. the light sensors in your eye, the air-pressure sensors in your ear, or vibrations from a wrist band — and turn it into meaning.