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What’s your brain doing, right now? Award-winning journalist Judith Horstman writes about health and medicine for doctors as well as the general public. Her work has appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide and on the Internet.
Horstman discusses what your brain is doing as you go through a typical day: sleeping, waking, fighting, loving and making important decisions.
No Comments Dr. Len Saputo and Byron Belitsos talk about A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine.
In this timely book, Belitsos and Saputo present the inspiring story of integrative medicine, and reveal how it can unlock the door to a health care system for all Americans.
The doctor’s talk comes in the later part of the lecture. I prefer his talk the most.
Christopher McDougall sets out to discover the biggest mystery in running - why his feet hurt. In turn, he grasps the secret that has been around for over 10,000 years and explains why he was BORN TO RUN.
Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night?
Meet Gary Vaynerchuk, a 33-year-old self-trained wine and social media expert who has revolutionized the wine industry. Gary’s cult-like following is the result of his unconventional, often irreverent commentary on wine, combined with his business acumen and foresight to use social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to reach an untapped audience.
He hosts a daily webcast called “The Thunder Show” on tv.winelibrary.com that attracts over 90,000 viewers each day. Recently, his podcast become the most downloaded show on iTunes in the Food category, beating out venerable names in the industry including Martha Stewart and Jamie Oliver.
Called the “king of social media,” Gary is one of the first Facebook users to max out his friend limit, with over 17,000 pending friend requests. He is in the top 100 people followed on Twitter and was the keynote speaker at events like the 2009 South of Southwest Interactive conference and the New Media and Web 2.0 expos.
With CRUSH IT! he shows how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand.
Step-by-step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driver’s manual for modern business.
Do you have a passion for food?
What you eat and how you eat it has a huge impact on the quality of your life.
Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, discusses his sixty-four rules for eating in his book Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.
“The markets are full of what I call edible food-like substances that you have to avoid,” says Michael Pollan. “So a lot of the rules are to help you, navigate that now very treacherous landscape of the American supermarket.”
A Short Interview
A Lecture (approx. 1 hour and 8 minutes)
This is a great lecture. Do yourself a favor, watch this video.
A Short Interview on ABC News
A Long Interview (approx. 59 minutes)
In this lecture Michael Pollan discusses the link between healthcare and diet, the dangers of processed foods, the power of the meat industry lobby, the “nutritional-industrial complex,” and his sixty-four rules for eating. (transcript of this interview)
Here are a few of Michael’s rules:
Rule 11: Avoid foods you see advertised on television.
Rule 19: If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
Rule 36: Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.
Rule 39: Eat all the junk food you want, as long as you cook it yourself.
Rule 47: Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored.
Rule 58: Do all your eating at a table.
Rule 59: Try not to eat alone.
John Freeman talks about The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox.
The former president of the National Book Critics Circle and current American Editor of Granta, gives us a history of people’s need for correspondence. He examines the astonishing growth of e-mail — how it is changing lives, and not always for the better.
Philip Pullman answers a question on the shocking title of his new book. Filmed at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on 28 March 2010.
May we all have the courage of our convictions.
May we all have backbones like Philip Pullman so that we can stand up for timeless principles, such as Freedom of Speech.
I just listened to a great self-help book on CD.
It’s called “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle.
Talent is not born. It’s grown.
Daniel Coyle’s book, The Talent Code, explains how talent grows in the brain, and how you can grow more of it. Included are a discussion of tiny, wildly successful talent hotbeds in sports, art, music, and academics; their distinctive patterns of practice, motivation, and coaching; and a bit of neurology (after all, every skill is located in the brain).
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Jul 25, 2010 
