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Brainiacs
On May 13 and 14, the Columbia University Medical Center held the Brain and Mind Symposium, designed to help answer some of the most pressing and complex issues in modern neuroscience, including stem cell research, Alzheimers, and disorders of the aging brain. Leonard talks with Drs. Gerald Fischbach and Richard Mayeux, two neuroscientists who participated in the Symposium. Then, James Surowiecki explains why he trusts the wisdom of the masses, and how collective wisdom shapes economies and societies. Vijay Seshadri on his new book of poems, The Long Meadow. And a discussion with writer David Lloyd about certain universal experiences in the lives of adolescent boys.
Gerald Fischbach and Richard Mayeux
Gerald Fischbach, M.D., executive vice president and dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Richard Mayeux, M.D. is the director of the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, and the codirector of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, both at Columbia University Medical Center.
» Read more about the Brain and Mind Symposium
Music: Soundtrack, "Naqoyqatsi." Music by Philip Glass. Tracks 5 and 11.
James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki writes that "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest ipeople in them." His new book is The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations.
Music: Alloy Orchestra, "Lonesome." Tracks 11 and 18
Vijay Seshadri
Vijay Seshadri writes about love, bodily pain, and his father’s obsession with the American Civil War in his latest book of poems, The Long Meadow. Seshadri was winner of the 2003 James Laughlin Award.
Superman Agonistes
When my X-ray eyes look through the humans
to the need inside,
glowing red and green,
my blood cells collide,
my lungs collapse,
my cortex rebels,
and my heart wraps
a bomb around itself
and threatens to kill us both.
But I cant stay away.
I have to fly down
to watch them pray,
to watch them couple,
to watch them fight,
exposing myself
to their kryptonite.
Vijay Seshadri
Superman Agonistes copyright 2004 by Vijay Seshadri. Reprinted from The Long Meadow with the permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
Music: Soundtrack, "At First Sight." Tracks 5 and 6
David Lloyd
David Lloyd’s new book is Boys: Stories and a Novella, set in upstate New York in 1966. He’s also the author of a book of poems called The Gospel According to Frank.
» Read an excerpt of Boys in the Reading Room
Music: Soundtrack, "The Usual Suspects." Track 20
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