Note: This blog was a test of using storify to export to wordpress. It posted as an active blog – wish it had posted in draft mode first. Storify has great potential, though, but would like to suggest a few usability tweaks to it. The below is meant as a timeline of what I thought was most important from a SXSW session I went to.
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Facilitator: Megan Miller
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Megan Miller (@missmilla2u) on Twitter
Sign up for Twitter to follow Megan Miller (@missmilla2u). Program Director at Bonnier R&D. Media and tech junkie. I also tweet abo… -
First up: Michael Scanlon from Lumosity
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Brain Games & Brain Training – Lumosity – About Us
Michael Scanlon Michael is a founding member of Lumos Labs and is in charge of scientific operations. As a neuroscience grad student at… -
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“Peak mental performance around an average of 7 hrs sleep a night. Moderate exercise helps too. Good for heart, good for brain. #SXbrainhack
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“Playing a musical instrument is positively correlated to increasing IQ over time. #sxbrainhack
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Next: Dan Wetmore from Sheepdog Sciences
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Sign up for Twitter to follow Daniel Wetmore (@dzwetmore). Neuroscientist, brain hacker, urban homesteader.
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““Leverage what the brain does well to compensate for what the brain does poorly” #sxbrainhack #sxblonon #sxsw
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Last: Dave Asprey from Bulletproof – formerly diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome – brain hacked his way out of it
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Dave Asprey (@bulletproofexec) on Twitter
Sign up for Twitter to follow Dave Asprey (@bulletproofexec). Upgraded Paleo biohacker, author, executive, mentor. Spent $250k to hack … -
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“Hack ur brain by hacking your heart first. Decrease heart rate variability to increase brain power #sxbrainhack #SXSW
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Yoga breathing can mimic the positive effects of LSD
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“questions about (legal) drugs to help improve performance all lead to recommendation to meditate & do breathing exercises. #sxbrainhack
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Question from audience: if hacking your brain works, why doesn’t science explore these types of treatements? A: from Michael Scanlon: traditional science starts with a hypothesis and then finds data, which limits the perspective to the hypothesis. Future = Big Data will tell us the solution without a hypothesis.
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““Big data and the quantified self movement is going to kick science’s ass.” Biohacker Dave Asprey @ #SXbrainhack #SXSW
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“#sxbrainhack blew my mind and I am excited about the implications for #ADHD treatmt
