Live Wire: 10 (Myron Bolitar)

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Eagleman writes at a level that is easy for the average layperson to understand and he relies on anecdotes and case studies to aid the reader. In 2010, Live Wire won the world's most lucrative crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing worth €125,000. [1] Plot summary [ edit ] Just wow. I had no idea that brain - something we take for granted because we do not even notice its work on a daily basis - can do such wonders. Somebody could easily insert most of the brain's accomplishments into a new sci-fi novel, and the majority of readers would assume that it's just a fiction, that we can't achieve this within our current bodies. But we can, and we do. Our whole life is based on those, seemingly magical skills. And this is how we operate every day. I was in a constant state of having my jaw on a floor, as this completely changed my way of perceiving what I have inside my head.

Live Wire by Kelly Ripa – HarperCollins

I listened to the audiobook read by Kelly Ripa. I always love it when celebrities read their own memoirs and/or "long-winded short stories" and to Kelly's credit, she did a superb job with the narration. I was fired up by the rave WSJ review (9-5-20) but reader Sarah points out an egregious error, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... Livewired (book) ( Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain), a neuroscience book by David Eagleman Also missing from this book was Kelly's "short story" about the unprofessional and self-centered stunt that she pulled in 2016 when she "went missing" from Live after her former co-host Michael Strahan announced he was moving to Good Morning America. Livewired" is the catchy term David Eagleman has coined to describe the miraculous ability of the brain to adapt in concert with its environment and make sense of the world. With fluid prose and crystal-clear analogies, Eagleman explains the function of the cerebral cortex as a general computing machine that can take any kind of input from environmental sensors — e.g. the light sensors in your eye, the air-pressure sensors in your ear, or vibrations from a wrist band — and turn it into meaning.livewired”(живо-свързан). Мозъкът ни се променя посоянно — той е адаптируема, жива, информационно-търсеща система. Изключителното на тази система е не в уникалността на частите й, а в начина, по който тези части си взаимодействат. Тя е динамична, жива електрическа вечнопроменяща се и самоконфигурираща се тъкан/мрежа. awards: the Edgar Award, Shamus Award and Anthony Award. His books include the Myron Bolitar series, as well as other standalone novels, including Play Dead, Miracle Cure. Tell No One, Gone for Good, No Second Chance, Just One Look, The Innocent, The Wods, Hold Tight, and Caught. Harlan Coben's books have been published in more than Livewired is framed as a series of fascinating sketches about "things the brain can do." The author seems most eager to point out ways that our current understanding of the brain could lead to wild, sci-fi futures. For example, the brain can successfully navigate a changing body and environment, so why can't our things do the same? Why can't our house adjust to our needs automatically? Same with our cars, our businesses, our cities. Ideas like these are radically out there, but also seem quite plausible in the author's capable hands. Edit: I have had a lot of people commenting on this review so please let me clarify what I mean. I found factual inaccuracies in the book that I know to be inaccurate because there were about my own field of expertise. The inaccuracies were referenced but did not match what the reference material stated and I had to go to the reference source to clarify what was actually factually correct. I can not recommend a book that fails to reference correctly. Ripa runs through wordy explanations of her marriage, childbirth, and her surprisingly successful career. There is never enough depth to satisfy. She also talks about sex quite a bit (odd for someone married for so long, is there something she's hiding?) and isn't afraid to use more R-rated language than she does on TV.

Live Wire (Myron Bolitar, book 10) by Harlan Coben Live Wire (Myron Bolitar, book 10) by Harlan Coben

With masterful storytelling, lucid analogies and thought-provoking new ideas, "Livewired" is a mind-expanding masterpiece of popular science. It's also one of the most hopeful books I've ever read, particularly needful in these uncertain times. Read it to renew your faith in not just the human spirit, but also to appreciate the gifts of your own miraculous brain. Learn to Swim Programme – following the Swim England Learn to Swim Framework with Stages 1-10 for children from 4 years old and Adult Learn to Swim sessions. The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger exposes a different side of sports agent Myron Bolitar in this explosive thriller…. Instead, she tells what I think are supposed to be "hilarious" anecdotes. There are some funny parts, but she isn't nearly as funny as she clearly thinks she is.The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric living fabric. And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric. With his hallmark clarity and enthusiasm he reveals the myriad ways that the brain absorbs experience: developing, redeploying, organizing, and arranging the data it receives from the body's own absorption of external stimuli, which enables us to gain the skills, the facilities, and the practices that make us who we are. Of course I bought this believing it was an autobiography, but the disappointment learning it was not, did not last long. Filled with funny stories-some I laughed out loud to and eagerly waited to hear more. T’was a little disappointed went the book ended—not because the book was disappointing, but because contrary to her beliefs, she is a natural storyteller. I would have preferred a chronological insightful memoir about how a bus driver's daughter from South Jersey with zero Hollywood connections earned and achieved her celebrity status. From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain based on the most recent scientific discoveries about how it unceasingly adapts, re-creates, and formulates new ways of understanding the world we live in. It's as if she wants to burn bridges (even saying how much she hates going in to do the talk show every day) but she doesn't have the guts to fully start the flames. Her personal wall is way up when it comes to telling deep truths about her marriage, kids, workplace, unusual friendships with a number of famous gays, and what her future holds.

Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories - Kelly Ripa - Google Books

One of Coben’s most exciting and multidimensional tales yet…a gripping tale.”— The Columbus Dispatch I liked this book. Writing is clear, tight, and entertaining, as I've come to expect from David Eagleman. Perhaps the thing I like best about Eagleman's books is the strong organizing concept. A lot of popular neuroscience books I read regurgitate a psych 101 class for the first third of the book, which is both tedious and often in need of updating (e.g. it used to be thought that the brain was one continuous neural net BUT THEN Ramon y Cajal, Psychology used to not be real science BUT THEN behaviorism, and then Phineas Gage got a pole launched through his frontal cortex, and HM had to have his hippocampus removed due to epilepsy, and here we are today). Eagleman's books in contrast, discuss the topics most tightly related to his theme at hand, and often present new material or familiar material through a novel lens, which I love! The theme of this book broadly is brain plasticity, highlighting how the brain is actually a general purpose computing machine that would ably use any input presented from birth as long as it consistently predicted something about the outside world. Eagleman also sets himself apart by introducing new, often quite startling theories, as well as making predictions. Live Wire is a collection of stories / essays from different periods throughout Kelly's life. Many of them are about her husband, Mark. It's actually well written for someone with no writing experience. In Live Wire, Ripa is candid, funny, and entertaining. I listened to her narrate the audiobook, and I liked hearing it in her voice (which sounds nothing like I expected it to 😅). Harlan Coben wins the 4th RBA Prize for Crime Writing with his novel 'Live Wire' ". Catalan News Wire. 10 September 2010 . Retrieved September 13, 2013.In September 2022, Ripa will add author to her resume, when her collection Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories is published by Dey Street Books. Livewired is a deep, occasionally repetitive examination of brain plasticity. The author reads the audiobook and you can tell that he's profoundly excited by all this science. Reading a text copy, I might have become bogged down in the neurons, synapses, and other brain ephemera. To read that she didn't have a relationship with Regis is not a surprise. She used him. Has had little respect for most cohosts. For a girl that started out as a B-rated actress on a soap opera, it seems like she has never really grown as a person. There is not depth to her when she tells her stories in this book. If that incident with Clay from American Idol happened now, she would be canceled. As she should be. But this would be a very enjoyable read for Kelly's fans! My mom loves Kelly and continues to watch her every weekday. I think I'll pass this one along to her 💕 Ripa claims to have written all of this herself (doubtful, she probably had a really good editor that wasn't willing to cut out all the dull stuff because there would be such a short manuscript left). And Kelly insists it's a "book of essays" instead of a "memoir," but really it's mostly inconsequential verbosity that I highly suspect is meant to cover up for the real secrets that she keeps carefully hidden within. Or as the Jersey girl might want to call it--it's verbal vomit.