Category: hippocampus

David Dobbs, the talented blogger and science writer whose work appears The New York Times Magazine, Nature, Wired.com, National Geographic, and others, put down his pen and stepped in front of a microphone in The Bell House in Brooklyn on May 22nd of this year. He was there to tell a story.

Here is how he began:

Six years ago this month I was walking down the front steps of my house in Montpelier, Vermont to drive my kids to preschool. I had my keys in my hand. The kids were already buckled into the car--they said, "C'mon, Dad!"--when I suddenly stopped on the front steps because I realized I had no idea how to actually get to the preschool. This was odd, because I had driven them to preschool and picked...