Now Tiffany Shlain, famous daughter of Leonard Shlain, the surgeon who wrote the seminal book on merging the two cultures of art and science called Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, has released another, albeit shorter, treatise called Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks, which compares a child's brain to the Internet.
Today, we're excited to release the third film in the series and an accompanying TED Book titled "Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks".
If juggling sickness, school plays, inset days and the never-ending summer holidays with a full-time office job is difficult enough for a parent to manage, trying to do anything that requires brain power from your kitchen table in the midst of tiny people is – well, to call it "challenging" seems disingenuous.
This time around we're solving mysteries in Victorian London, escaping from locked rooms with nothing more than brain power and playing a beautiful game from a fantasy world.
Maybe to raise money, too, though these are new businesses fuelled by brain power and an injection of redundancy money or investment from friends and family.
We obtained approval for the Brain Power study from UBC Clinical Ethics Review Board.
Immigrants have been instrumental in building some of the world's largest tech companies and Silicon Valley feeds on a constant flow of brain power and innovation from people coming from all over the world.
Laurence Tisch achieved extraordinary success through brain power (he graduated from college at age 18 and was a crack code-breaker during World War II), hard work, an appetite for risk and a strong sense of integrity.
The brain power comes in from skill sets that [can't all come from] one company or one university".
That type of brain power, concentrated together in a single startup, is rare.
