Reminder: Lecture Tomorrow at UC Santa Barbara

I’m about to fly to California for my talk tomorrow at the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind in Santa Barbara, “Soul Made Flesh: Neuroscience in 1659 and 2009.” Here are the details.

Hope to meet some Santa Barbarans. (Or is that Santa Barbarians? Suddenly I have visions old Saint Nick with a pole-axe.)

[Image: Frontispiece to a Dutch edition of Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves (1665) by Thomas Willis. For more on Willis, see my book of the same name as my lecture]

March 11th, 2009 10:25 AM by Carl Zimmer in Brains, Talks | 3 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

3 Responses to “Reminder: Lecture Tomorrow at UC Santa Barbara”

1. infidel Says:
March 11th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

“We’re off to Zanzibar, to meet the Zanzibarbarians”

- Gonzo in The Muppets’ Treasure Island
2. Audra Says:
March 11th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

I always thought we were called Santa Barbarians. But maybe it was just my desire to be a barbarian of any kind. Say hello to my fair hometown – I miss her so. Your lecture looks fascinating.
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March 16th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

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