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National Brain Game Challenge – September 30th!

September 26, 2012

To Merl Reagle, one of the nation’s most prolific puzzle masters whose Sunday crosswords appear every week in more than 50 newspapers, language is a playground. Take the word “ambidextrous”…

The UN’s First Ever High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace

September 18, 2012

The sixty-sixth General Assembly convenes high-level forum on the “Culture of Peace”, with education, youth outreach, women’s empowerment highlighted as keys to a more peaceful world. Secretary-General: Through education we…

AIR FORCE WEEK IN NEW YORK CITY AUG 19-21!

August 17, 2012

You're never too old or too young to celebrate Air Force Week.Air Force Week is a program endorsed by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force that provides the…

IBREA’S WORLD YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM – GENERATION 2

July 30, 2012

The International Brain Education Association (IBREA) held its second World Youth Leadership Program from July 22-29 in New York City. The 12 participants came from the United States, Taiwan, Colombia,…

Brain World welcomes guest blogger–Teenage Philanthropist Bosilika An

June 19, 2012

Brain World Magazine welcomes 18 year old Bosilika An as guest blogger during her trip overseas this summer when she will visit Shanti Bhavan, a prestigious boarding school in the…

And the 2012 Kavli Prize Winners are…

May 31, 2012

Hurray for Science! The winners of the 2012 prestigious $1 million Kavli Prize were announced live via satellite from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo. The event…

High-Risk, High-Reward Science: A Mega-Watt Panel at the NY Academy of Sciences

May 18, 2012

Where do great ideas come from? How do you know when you’re on the right path? These and other questions were addressed in a fascinating panel discussion presented by the…

World Press Freedom Day 2012 – New Voices in Media

May 4, 2012

H.E. Michael E. Higgins, President of Ireland, speaking at the World Press Freedom Day BriefingOn May 3rd the DPI/NGO (Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations) Relations in cooperation with the United…

Brain Power Conference in Toronto – May 3-4, 2012

April 28, 2012

The first annual Brain Power Conference is less than a week away and it’s shaping up to be quite an event. According to Doug Thompson who is a founding partner…

Spring 2012 Calendar of Brain-Related Events

April 10, 2012

April National Autism Awareness Month autism-society.org/about-us/national-autism-awareness-month/ March 31-April 3 Chicago, Illinois 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting cnsmeeting.org/ 10-14 Soelden, Austria 14th International Neuroscience Winter Conference winterneuroscience.org 11-14 New Orleans,…

USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, DC April 28-29

April 10, 2012

A visit to Washington, DC in the spring is especially exciting, but this season the “wow” factor in the nation’s capital will rise just a bit higher as the city…

THE QUEEN OF HEARTS IS MY MOTHER

March 26, 2012

The room on the 19th floor of the Con Edison Building at 4 Irving Place in New York City is filled with long tables. At the tables are men and…

ASHLEY JUDD’S SENSITIVE HEART & CALL TO ACTION

March 15, 2012

Ashley Judd at the UN Yesterday, on March 14, 2012, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) presented “Ashley Judd in Conversation with the United Nations Office on…

INTERNATIONAL BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK

March 12, 2012

Sponsored by the Dana Foundation, Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research.   Every March, BAW unites the efforts of partner…

NOVEMBER 17 – WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY

November 17, 2011

Did you know that today, November 17th, is World Philosophy Day? Celebrated at UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) initiative every third Thursday of November since 2002, World…

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