The Cosmos Inside Your Head: Neuroscientist David Eagleman Tells The Story Of The Brain On PBS.

Like many forty-something scientists working in labs today, Dr. David Eagleman remembers watching Carl Sagan on television as a kid and feeling his imagination expand. Each week on Cosmos (1980), Sagan provided context for our place in the universe, giving the unfathomably enormous cosmos a door of accessibility. For Eagleman, walking through that door was the beginning of a lifelong project to do for the brain what Sagan did for the universe.

This week that project comes to PBS as a series hosted by Eagleman called The Brain, launching in tandem with a book of the same name.


As an undergraduate at Rice University, he majored in British and American literature. He spent his junior year abroad at Oxford University and graduated from Rice in 1993. He earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute.

The series begins Wednesday night.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo...in-on-pbs/

Thanks for the info

Note: the Houston viewing party for the series premiere, scheduled for Wed Oct 14 at the Gorgeous Gael, has evidently been CANCELLED in deference to Game 5 of the Astros playoff series:
http://alumni.rice.edu/events/brain-viewing-party

(10-13-2015 01:22 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  Note: the Houston viewing party for the series premiere, scheduled for Wed Oct 14 at the Gorgeous Gael, has evidently been CANCELLED in deference to Game 5 of the Astros playoff series:
http://alumni.rice.edu/events/brain-viewing-party

Well, not surprising I guess given the Houston sports "mania" and the nature of the Gael's business model; beer and buts in seats! David should have scheduled the viewing party somewhere on RICE campus and would have still attracted the RICE student "non-athletes" and "non-athletic" supporters, who are numerous..... I would have gone too...

Oh well, can watch 'em both at the same time on my home vid sys.....

Got my DVR set up for the entire series, thanks for the note.

P.s. Go Astros&Rangers too.