Lumos Labs, makers of simple video games that have shown to improve cognition, has raised $400,000 in angel financing from undisclosed investors. Neuroscientists designed a handful of entertaining games to train different parts of your brain, from memory and attention to processing speed and spatial reasoning. Details on the science are here.
Once upon a time, Dan considered himself a magazine journalist with dreams of "The New Yorker" and a couple of well-reviewed but only mildly successful books. Then one day, life, as it is known to do, decided it was time for rebirth. Like so many things before it, this rebirth was conceived on a mostly-empty plane to Reno. Now, instead of magazine writing, Dan would plunge into the world of New Media and write for Matt Marshall's blog.
It's funny how it goes.