Leonard Mlodinow

Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships, misunderstand the reasons for our investment decisions, and misremember important events. Employing his trademark wit and lucid, accessible explanations of the most obscure scientific subjects, Mlodinow takes us on a tour of this research, unraveling the complexities of the Subliminal self and increasing our understanding of how the human mind works and how we interact with friends, strangers, spouses, and coworkers.

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Leonard Mlodinow discusses Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior.

Exploring the Unconscious Mind with Physicist and Author Leonard Mlodinow. A large part of your brain is devoted to unconscious activity. Bombarded as you are by 11 million bits of sensory information per second, it's simply more efficient for many neural processes to take place automatically. For example, you don'€™t decide something looks green or tastes sour -- you just get the message. However, scientists are discovering that these hidden mental processes are turning out to be far more influential than previously suspected. In his latest book, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, physicist and best-selling author Leonard Mlodinow probes the brain'€™s most mysterious territory. Leonard Mlodinow received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and now teaches at the California Institute of Technology. He wrote The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, co-wrote The Grand Design with Stephen Hawking, and was once a staff writer for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Before and after: Try our dopamine-spiked cocktail of the night, the Mind Meld; groove to synapse-stimulating sounds; snag a signed copy of Leonard Mlodinow's new book; stick around for the thought-provoking Q and A. (lampbane)… (more)

Leonard Mlodinow discusses The Drunkard's Walk : How Randomness Rules Our Lives.

A DRUNKARD’S WALK is a type of random statistical distribution with important applications in scientific studies ranging from biology to astronomy. Mlodinow, a visiting lecturer at Caltech and coauthor with Stephen Hawking of A Briefer History of Time, takes us on a walk through the hills and valleys of randomness and how it directs our lives more than we realize. Mlodinow introduces important historical figures such as Bernoulli, Laplace and Pascal, and defines such tricky concepts as regression to the mean and the law of large numbers, which should help readers as they navigate the daily deluge of election polls and new studies on how to live to 100. Book signing to follow lecture. (alu042)… (more)

Leonard Mlodinow , The Drunkard's Walk : How Randomness Rules Our Lives.

Mlodinow, a former writer for Star Trek and MacGyver, reminds us that much of life is less predictable than the steps of a drunken man, stumbling home from a night at the bar. By highlighting the lives and careers of the wild and unpredictable characters who contributed necessary groundwork to the study of probability, Mlodinow shows us how we misinterpret the world around us and believe we have control or understanding, when in fact we are gleaning too much from far too little. (booksense)… (more)