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We Are Family

December 30, 2011

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“About one-third of the human brain is devoted to vision,” writes neuroscientist David Eagleman in his bestselling book on the brain Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. So when a blind person stops receiving visual input from their eyes, their brain-power can be reprogrammed to receive it in another way. Visual-tactile substitution glasses can take… [Read more…]

Books & Culture Podcast

July 26, 2010

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The good folks at Books & Culture devoted their Monday podcast to a discussion of The Art of Dying. Listen here as John Wilson and Stan Guthrie talk about the “understated tone” of the book and its summons to virtue. It’s a book, John says, that all Books & Culture readers should pick up.

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