In one of our leadership coaching classes, we had a fascinating discussion about getting to the root of a client’s challenge. I had to laugh, because that same day, I joined my husband in digging a trench in our backyard so that we could lay an electrical line out to...
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, is the author of 7½ Lessons About the Brain. She offers some eyebrow-raising ideas in the book, and it’s a fun, fast, fascinating read—I highly recommended it. An important point she makes early in the book is that the brain’s...
A friend of mine is taking a masterclass on fashion and came across an interesting piece of research about what happens in the brain when we wear certain types of attire. A researcher had subjects wear a white coat that they believed belonged to a doctor. Those who...
William Muir is an evolutionary biologist who was studying what would increase the egg-laying productivity of chickens. His hypothesis was that by continually breeding the Super-Chickens of the flock generation after generation, one would progressively develop a...
Wouldn’t it be interesting if we could peek inside people’s brains? Well, in a way, it turns out we actually can. And that’s because our EYES are actually a part of our brains. During development in utero, our eyes get squeezed outside of the skull, but they are...