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

Move toward the data. The brain builds an internal model of the world, and adjusts whenever predictions are incorrect. Ron Rash is renowned for his writing about Appalachia, but his latest book, The Caretaker, begins ... Scott Shane's outstanding work Flee North tells the little-known tale of an unlikely partnership ... David Eagleman är professor i neurovetenskap vid Stanford och har grundat företaget NeoSensory som tillverkar armband med vibrationsmotorer vilka kan ge döva förmågan att höra.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. Vår fascinerande hjärna och dess förmåga att anpassa sig till olika omständigheter. Särskilt beskriver David Eagleman hur hjärnan har förmågan att tolka komplicerade signaler från sensoriska organ och av dessa ta till vara på den i stunden relevanta informationen. Trots allt lever hjärnan i ett mörkt rum där den enda kopplingen med omvärlden består av elektrokemiska signaler. 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. Kelly's disparaging "Regis comments" show that Kelly never learned that it's poor taste to discredit a mentor, especially when this mentor is dead and can't defend himself/herself. Instead, "Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories" is a collection of very, very, very "long-winded" and "I'm trying to be funny and entertaining" short stories about random happenings in Kelly's life.

Live Wire by Kelly Ripa – HarperCollins

Probably the most controversial (and most interesting) chapter involves her working with Regis Philbin and how she was hired. There is no love lost between the co-hosts, and it's obvious Ripa isn't happy with how she has been treated by the show's owners and producers over the years. However, she fails to go into much detail, pulling her punching and leaving the ring limp. 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.

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Ripa has earned numerous accolades over the years, including the prestigious Excellence in Media Award from GLAAD and Glamour’s Woman of the Year Award. She is also consistently recognized by The Hollywood Reporter and has been named as part of its annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 list, as well as the publication’s 35 Most Powerful People in Media.

Livewire Swimming • Livewire

Esperanza Diaz: former FLOW (Fabulous Ladies Of Wrestling) professional wrestler under the name Little Pocahontas; she is a partner at MB Reps (as of the novel Darkest Fear) and is Myron's closest friend.Eagleman does it again! This book was such a rewarding experience. The pacing was great, and he didn't get bogged down in the technical details that sometimes make this particular subject matter unapproachable to many. Not only did it have a thorough consolidation of many recent discoveries in neuroscience, but I was pleasantly surprised with a few new hypotheses to which I hadn't yet been exposed. 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. 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. As for it being one of the most important books of the decade... it really isn’t. Plasticity has been known about for a long time and none of the information in the book was more than I learnt in my undergraduate degree. Having said that it is interesting and David Eagleman does make it easy to understand.

Summary and reviews of Live Wire by Harlan Coben - BookBrowse Summary and reviews of Live Wire by Harlan Coben - BookBrowse

Taking the idea further, Eagleman makes us wonder whether a livewired, self-adapting home and electric grid could be right around the corner. Trippy, sure, but why not? And that's what I particularly appreciate about Eagleman's work: he provokes us to think about *both* the stuff we take for granted *and* the radical "adjacent possible". This is especially fun since the book is talking about the very same thing you're using to read it (not the Kindle, silly — I mean your *brain*). For example, if the brain's so damn changeable, how can we even hold on to any memories before they get overwritten by new stuff? I thought she was going to talk about her experience on the show. Nope. She mostly focused on her life before she got the "Live with Regis and Kelly" hosting gig and a little bit about her first few months there, but NOTHING ELSE. We know her from the show so to leave it out nearly completely was a very bizarre, intentional and glaring omission.New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben proves once again that "nobody writes them better"* in a thriller that asks a provocative question: 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. Mr. Coben spares his reader no emotional extreme…a fast-moving action tale.”— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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