Last week, Park City was flooded with filmgoers for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and on PBS, Paul Sapin's 2003 film Leonardo's Dream Machines aired four consecutive times.

One documentary at Sundance I didn't want to miss was Connected, produced by Tiffany Shlain, who also founded the Webby awards...

What will our future be? Everyone wants to know. Depending on who you listen to, one future is new and exciting, the other terminal and scary.

Why is "One Day at a Time" so hard to do? Is it because we just can't bear to live without time?

The amygdala is the ancient part of our brain. It's known as the "lizard brain" and often called the "Seat of Fear." It carries centuries of animal instinct in our DNA and triggers emotional arousal.

Animals move to higher ground before a tsunami. This intuition has been overpowered in...

Contact sports with good quality smash factor are guaranteed moneymakers. Demolition Derby, football, and the fine art of Theater Wrestling packs coliseums and auditoriums with fans, just craving a good pileup.

Cycling is different. Racers practice the fine art of avoiding each other. Rocking handlebars an inch apart, they...

An image of Annapurna III in Nepal stretches across the top of my blog, "Loving The Zone." I write about athletes and how competitive sport enhances life and the brain. Athletes and mountain climbers often reference the Zone to describe the body's natural endorphin high when time slows...

I'm checking out an entry in Wikipedia on Schrodinger's Equation, which remains unsolved. It's one of the most perplexing in quantum physics.

"The atomic orbitals of hydrogen like ions are solutions to the Schrodinger Equation in a spherically symmetric potential".

Wow. I've been invited to a Ball. A Big symmetric...

I met Greg when Internet dating sites became the new social network. I tried it once, just for fun.

When I saw Greg's profile pic, something stopped me after dozens of "I don't think so's." I sent him an email. He sent one back. Then I did something crazier...

I attended a conference in Southern California last December featuring current developments in human enhancement and life extension. Not sure it was worth the flight from San Francisco, I checked out the speakers, most whom I didn't know. A few had presented at the TED conference, which was a plus,...

On a national website where I am featured, I posted a version of this blog post last month. Apparently, the inquiries about what I wrote surprised the website creator and myself. I didn't realize so many were interested in the organ we understand the least - our brain.

Recently, I've...