Winnipeg, Canada

Brains (and their function) have been much on my mind this week… particularly after seeing a remarkable TED Talk by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist and brain researcher who herself suffered a massive brain hemorrhage, and through this harrowing experience comes to remarkable insights—‘My Stroke of Insight’ provides powerful revelations and valuable points to ponder. Watch it here (18:44).

On the lighter side of things, Ev’s brainy (and cute) daughter Jennifer Kornelsen (a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology, post-doctoral fMRI research in previously undetectable spinal cord and brainstem activity at Stanford, now back in Manitoba and teaching Psychology at the University of Winnipeg, view her CV here), has been using a great little mnemonic tool with her students: Pinky and the Brainstem. Enjoy…