Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, February 9, 2024
What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything
Plus: A 'backbone' through a hexagon maze; Optimized hash tables; Cosmic magnetism, mapped; New Quanta Science Podcast
What Your Brain Is Doing When You're Not Doing Anything
By NORA BRADFORD
When your mind is wandering, your brain's "default mode" network is active. Its discovery 20 years ago inspired a raft of research into networks of brain regions and how they interact with each other.
Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe's Biggest Magnetic Fields
By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN
A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from.
What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells
By VIVIANE CALLIER; Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT
Every species develops at its own unique tempo, leaving scientists to wonder what governs their timing. A suite of new findings suggests that cells use basic metabolic processes as clocks.
