Annie Murphy Paul
Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Slate, Time magazine, and The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of Origins, reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review and selected by that publication as a "Notable Book," and The Cult of Personality, hailed by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker as a “fascinating new book.” She has held the Bernard Schwartz Fellowship and the Future Tense Fellowship at New America; currently, she is a fellow in New America’s Learning Sciences Exchange. She has also received the Spencer Education Reporting Fellowship and the Rosalyn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship. Paul has spoken to audiences around the world about learning and cognition; her TED Talk has been viewed by more than 2.6 million people. A graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she has served as a lecturer at Yale University and as a senior advisor at the Yale University Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Though science has long told us that the brain is the most powerful organ, new evidence suggests that our minds may have reached their optimal ability. In the face of increasingly complex modern problems in education, work, and human relationships, people ought to begin “thinking outside the brain.” The Extended Mind, by acclaimed science journalist Annie Murphy Paul, posits that thinking through our bodies, environments, and communities may solve our brains’ stagnation. The scope of her research includes the voices of experts in many fields—such as economics, psychology, and biology—and reveals surprising yet ancient sources of thinking that lie beyond the confined borders of our heads.
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