Carolyn Abraham – You Are What You Eat

Journalist Carolyn Abraham reveals one part of us humans that continues to confound her: the brain. How do electric impulses translate into thought, she asks? There is a link between what we eat and how we behave, but how does that link work? We understand 12 out of the more than 30,000 chemicals in our brain. Can we even begin to imagine the workings of the other 29,988? What is wonderful about her job, Carolyn says, is that she gets to travel around and learn endlessly about ideas. In her talk, she lets us in on some mind-bending ones.