A Year of BrainTweets – Which is Your Favourite from 2012? by Dr Jack Lewis

There is an awful lot of great information out there on the internet. But, as we have all no doubt experienced, there is also a load of old rubbish to wade through before you find those nuggets of wisdom. When I comment on twitter, anything labelled with #neuroformed (short for neuroscience-informed) is, in my opinion, a grain of brain-related wheat – a news article, abstract, insight or quote – that I’ve chosen to give my seal of approval to, flagging it as interesting, relevant and worth a few moments of your attention.

THE TECH SHOW on Discovery Science presented by Dr Jack

On Friday nights at 8pm starting in July 2011 Dr Jack Lewis presents “THE TECH SHOW” on the Discovery Science channel. In 26 half-hour episodes Jack takes viewers on a journey through some of the latest technological breakthroughs in engineering, science and biomedicine. We explore new developments in robotics, renewable energy and tornado physics. We encounter a wide variety of nutty inventors, hell-bent on creating the most bizarre water, land and air-borne vehicles the world has ever seen. We see how engineering can be guided by the latest biological research that gets to the bottom of how evolution has solved various problems by giving certain creatures amazing abilities. And we even discover what neuroscience can learn from the art of magic.