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Vol. 1, No. 20 - November 6, 2015
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Celebrate the Einstein Centennial
One hundred years ago, an obscure technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office published a series of papers that we now refer to as the theory of General Relativity and Albert Einstein's name became synonymous with the word "genius." After a century of reviews, tests and challenges, this theory still holds up and explains the outer world as we know it today. The entire month of November will celebrate this achievement as people from all over the world join in celebrating Einstein, science and the pursuit of knowledge.
At
Brain Matters 2015, we're joining in the celebration by exploring the inner workings of genius through the lens of neuroscience. While it might not be immediately apparent, our studies of the brain today owe a huge debt to Einstein's work. We use fiber optics to manipulate neurons into expressing or suppressing certain genes. We apply quantum physics to understand the electro-chemical signaling in between neurons. We probe Einstein's preserved brain, trying to find the secret to his genius, so far to no avail.
You can learn more about Einstein's unremarkable life and remarkable career
here. Check out the
Einstein Centennial celebration on their homepage.
Join us at Brain Matters 2015: We've got an exciting line-up of speakers committed to this online event and we'll be featuring them in future issues of this newsletter. But don't wait to
buy your ticket! We have a limited number of seats and we expect them to sell quickly!
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The schedule is out for Brain Matters 2015, our online conference taking place November 10-11. You can review the hourly schedule on our conference page and plan to see your favorite speakers. Scheduling conflicts? No worries! All conference attendees will have access to session recordings for a limited period of time after the event. But I suggest you plan to attend as much of the live event as possible, so you can post questions and interact directly with our experts in neuroscience, learning and awakening your individual genius. View conference schedule...
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Angel Ross is the founder of
Digi-Quest, a consulting, training and development firm that specializes in the creation, design and delivery of blended adult learning solutions, Learning Management System Integration and Virtual Collaboration. She is also our sponsor and a key member of the Brain Matters 2015 conference team. Angel is busy leading dry run meetings with all of our speakers this week and getting her own presentation ready for Brain Matters 2015. You won't want to miss her engaging talk about bringing out the inner genius of your audience.
Read more about Angel...
Speaker Spotlight: Gerri Light
Gerri's educational background includes degrees and certifications in technology and science with a focus on adult learning is virtual environments. Gerri has experience working in the fields of both information technology and education. An early acceptor of virtual education for adult learners, Gerri researches and advances best practices for successful online instruction working with leading theorists in the field of adult learning. Gerri delivers workshops and presents at conferences either virtually or traveling globally to collaborate on the topic distance education.
View complete list of speakers at Brain Matters 2015
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Dr. Marti (left) with colleagues from the University of Valencia, Spain.
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Dr. Soraya L. Vallés Marti graduated in Biological Science at the University of Valencia and remained there to undertake a PhD under the supervision of Consuelo Guerri at Research Institution (Instituto de Investigaciones Citológicas), which she completed in 1996. Her dissertation was "Changes of astroglia intermediate filaments gene expression during rat brain development: Effect of alcohol exposure."
Today, she studies inflammation and oxidative stress mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease. She is also studying the Central Nervous System and how it controls cancer by hormones. She is working on a grant to conduct a study about stem cells and brain.
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ATD is celebrating
Employee Learning Week December 7-11. Learning professionals around the world are using this limited time to highlight the critical connection between learning and achieving organizational results. In essence, participating learning teams are running an ad campaign, selling their services to the consumers of training within their organization.
Read more posts on my Brain Matters Blog...
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Using Neuroscience to Enhance Your Mentoring Practice
 I had the pleasure of helping members of the International Mentoring Association (IMA) apply
neuroscience to their mentoring practice. This organization is at the forefront of the application of brain science to help people change their behavior. We had a great exchange of ideas and I'll be making a recording available to you soon.
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My Session with Steve Haskin at Training 2016
Corporate training today is all business. Many corporations actually forbid the use of comedy or humor during training. But did you know that your brain is finely tuned to respond to humor? When you understand the neuroscience of humor, you can incorporate it into your existing training programs to increase learner engagement, recall and retention. Please join me and former Saturday Night Live comedy writer Steve Haskin for this highly interactive session. We promise to make you laugh - and learn. This session is recommended for directors/managers, decision makers, designers, e-learning developers, learning executives and trainers/facilitators. The content is equally appropriate for new practitioners as for senior learning professionals.
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Are You Following Me?
If you're like me, you can't get enough information about the application of neuroscience to enhance learning and performance. I spend several hours a day culling through research papers, press releases, blogs and newspaper articles to curate the best news about the learning profession and I send it out as a tweet. If you'd like to get this information daily, just follow me on twitter
@margiemeacham.
I'm looking forward to connecting with you soon!
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Upcoming Event:
Countdown to Brain Matters 2015 Conference Nov 10-11
I'm getting so excited about our online conference, Brain Matters 2015. We're down to the final days for registration and our speakers have developed tons of useful information on bringing out your inner genius using neuroscience. I know how busy you are, so remember that we'll be recording the sessions so you can catch them later. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you online as we interact with Marshall Goldsmith, Lois Zachary, Bill Jensen, Jay Cross, Steve Haskin, and many other experts in the learning profession. New Yorker magazine writer Patricia Marx will kick us off by telling the story behind her new book, Let's Be Less Stupid.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to bring out your inner genius!
Register now!
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