Susan Magsamen - Neuroscience, NeuroArts, and the mystery that life really is

Susan Magsamen makes her life at the frontier: the frontier of neuroscience, of institutional change, of the intersection of art and science. Her's is a life full of wisdom for how to live amongst mystery and befriend complexity.

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Show Notes:

• spontaneous "you are my sunshine" (02:00)
• T. S. Eliot (08:00)
• implementation science (08:40)
• therapeutic recreation (11:00)
• Trabian Shorters and asset framing (15:00)
• Daniel Kahneman (16:00)
• neuroplasticity (22:30)
• Howard Gardner and Kurt Fisher and Mind, Brain, and Education Program at Harvard (26:15)
• Karl Alexander (27:30)
• Curiosity Kits (28:30)
• NeuroArts (32:00)
• Gileadby Marilynne Robinson (36:00)
• more than scientific knowledge (38:00)
• "Social Support and the Perception of Geographical Slant" (45:00)
• Resmaa Menakem (46:30)
• NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative (46:40)
• "Cirque du Soleil and the neuroscience of awe" on Vox (47:40)
• Global Watering Hole (51:30)
• Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards (52:30)
• Rachel Naomi Remen (56:30)
• Lightning Round (01:03:00)
  • Book: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  • Passion: horseback riding
  • Heart sing: grandchildren
  • Screwed up: articulation in these times
• Find Susan online:
  • International Arts + Mind Lab

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