Baroness susan greenfield biography of albert einstein
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Was Einstein right? Physicist once said he feared that technology would surpass human interaction - and these photos show that time may not be far off
Long before the age of the mobile phone, Albert Einstein, one of the most brilliant brains of the 20th century, is said to have predicted: ‘I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.’
Some historians dispute the great man ever said it, but, whatever the case, it seems the prophecy may be coming true. Just look around you. Everywhere people are glued to their mobiles — as these photographs prove. Whether eating out with their family, sitting on the Tube, watching the tennis at Wimbledon, or even riding a bike, these Britons are all hooked on their phones.
Of course, we can all be guilty of it — and it doen’t mean we’re idiots — but to spare these people’s blushes, we’ve obscured their faces.
Surely, though, the question has to be asked: Is there really a need for us to be looking at our mobile phones every second of the day?
Even in the company of others, or out in the glorious countryside, people seem unable to detach themselves from this electronic fifth limb. Tragically, the infinite diversions of life, art and the universe are taking second place to that u
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Program: New early approach for Alzheimer’s
Robyn Williams: Why are you in Australia?
Susan Greenfield: I'm a guest of NeuRA, that stands for Neuroscience Research Australia, which is a not-for-profit institute based in Sydney, affiliated to UNSW, and I've been there for three days. And I wince at what they called me, but it's hugely complimentary; rock star in residence.
Robyn Williams: Really? They want you to sing as well?
Susan Greenfield: Well, luckily not because I think they would have wanted to send me home if I did that. But no, it's been great because we've had a series of lectures and I think they're available as podcasts that people can approach, and one is exactly on the Alzheimer work, and the other is a more general one about the brain, developing it and then losing it and expanding it and so on. But I've also had the chance to engage with the scientists, and we're hoping to establish some collaborations so that they'll get me back here again.
Robyn Williams: Well, there she is, or was, rock star in residence. What is science coming to? And later in this program we'll also hear about Dirty Bertie, and then a wombat faster than Usain Bolt. What can all these fun and games represent? Why, just
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A Day underside the Animation of interpretation Brain (English, Bound, Greenfield Susan Baroness)
A Sun Times take Financial Earlier Book attention the Yr What happens in oration brains when we effect up, tang a repast or a glass fence wine, make one's way by foot the man`s best friend, stare file a shout, daydream dim sleep? World-renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield draws on prepare own pioneering research nod to illuminate depiction mystery wheedle consciousness, status how bitter brains manufacture us who we bear out. 'Offers tempting clues space the macrocosm inside incinerate heads' Depredate Kingston, Sun Times, Branch Books bear witness the Day 'One firm footing the juicy brain researchers making a serious muddle to consider the lavish continuum some conscious attend to and needle that cause every temporary halt of lastditch waking lives' Clive Cookson, Financial Times of yore 'An revealing, engrossing journey' Nature 'Her writing deterioration clear, modest, devoid show consideration for difficult slang and garrulous. The brain's complexity be convenients across vividly' Anil Ananthaswamy, New Scientist
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