<p>The 18 minute video of an incredible TED talk just went <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229">online</a>:
<i>"Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment." </i>
</p><p>At one point during that perceptual blur, only her arm came into sharp focus, and then drifted into hallucination.
</p><p>Here she is holding a real human brain and about to launch into a humorous, yet poignant exploration of the left brain / right brain dichotomy within us all…
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This talk epitomizes a “TED Moment”
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/44124348109@N01">Steve Jurvetson</a> from Menlo Park, USA
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44124348109@N01/2330268706/">Observing a Stroke from Within</a>