Image

Notes on Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows”

As I read through Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, I took a few notes centered on where the information Carr presents dovetails with the information John Bowlby presents in his trilogy on attachment theory. Here are my notes. The page numbers refer to pages in The Shallows.

Read More

Summarizing Neurologist Elkhonon Goldberg’s Book Entitled “The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World” (Part III)

When I was a boy back in the 1960s I enjoyed watching country singer Mel Tillis on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. (How a young boy was able to stay up past his bedtime to watch late night TV without his parents knowing is a story for another day.) I remember feeling bad for […]

Read More

COMMENT ON: America’s Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity | Truthout

Americas Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity | Truthout. Friday 6 January 2011 by: Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet | News Analysis Hello all. Happy New Year! I trust everyone had a great holiday season. I know I did.

Read More

Nicholas Carr to Speak at RYOL Lecture Series

Author Nicholas Carr will be speaking as a part of the Foundation’s Roll Your Own Lecture (RYOL) Series. Mr. Carr is coming to Albuquerque on Friday, February 17th, 2012, to talk about his book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Book Description—The Shallows Here’s a description of The Shallows from the book’s […]

Read More

“Take That Thumb Out of Your Mouth and Respond to That White Mouse—Now Kid”

I’d like to take a short break from writing my multi-part summary of neurologist Elkhonon Goldberg’s book entitled The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World. This will be my last post of the year, so I’ll restart my New Executive Brain summary early next year. Even though the Foundation is in the […]

Read More