Think Thank Thunk

Dalton Sherman of Charles Rice Learning Center in Dallas Texas recently delivered one of the best speeches I’ve ever seen. Not bad for a 5th grader.

One morning, 37 year old Jill Bolte Taylor woke up to learn she was having a massive stroke. While this realization would have terrified most, Taylor’s response was, and I quote: “This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?”

Her TED talk was hands down the most fascinating and moving I have ever seen.

What do you get when you cross a science nerd with a jazz saxophonist? Apparently, a researcher with enough curiosity, talent and intelligence to actually video, in real time, the brain functions of people at their most creative.

Thought the debate about gender based differences was over? Think you know the best way to treat your opposite sex children or students so that they aren’t shackled by stereotypes about what they can or can not do? Think again.