In Flight Reading

Tonight, while waiting for my flight to arrive in Islip, I perused the shelves of the travel mart and walked away with two finds. One was The Atlantic, this month with a headline of, "Is Google making us Stoopid?" by Nicholas Carr, who wrote The Big Switch: Rewiring the Word from Edison to Google. The magazine was a must buy and the article takes a good look at how our brains are being rewired (perhaps) to read shorter pieces, to skim the War and Peace novels we may have once read. The other purchase was My Stroke of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. Cohort members will remember her as the effective presenter who used the real human brain in the Garr Reynolds presentation. I was very impressed with Jill, and having a daughter who has a brain injury, and family members who have experienced stroke, I am very interested in how she says she healed her brain in the eight years since her stroke. There was one more book that I had my eye on. It was Deirdre Breakenridge's new book: PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences. Her website is: http://www.deirdrebreakenridge.com/. She has a lot to say that ties in with our class. Winding down now from the big New York weekend where my twin great-nieces were Christened. Thank goodness for delays and airport travel marts.