Books: December 2004 Archives

Mind Hacks begins your exploration of the mind with a look inside the brain itself, using hacks such as "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain" and "Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes." Also among the 100 hacks in this book, you'll find:
 

• Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions
• See Movement When All is Still
• Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention 
• Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty
  
• Mold Your Body Schema
• Test Your Handedness
• See a Person in Moving Lights
• Make Events Understandable as Cause-and-Effect
• Boost Memory by Using Context
• Understand Detail and the Limits of Attention

Art and Design Prof. Phoebe Gloeckner isn’t afraid to speak her mind. Whether she’s penning an excoriating criticism of the comics community, illustrating a cross-section of a blowjob or telling the story of a murdered Mexican teenager, she’s got a lot to say on the subject besides what’s on the page. A cartoonist, writer and professional medical illustrator, Gloeckner accepted a position teaching figure drawing and comics in the School of Art and Design this term.