by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Jun 22, 2018 | Personal
Did you know that you don’t have to be a savant to have savant-like abilities? This may sound impossible, but it’s not! Here are five extraordinary abilities our brains have, and you can test these skills at home: ONE: Astonishing Memory Feats TWO: Telekinesis...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | May 5, 2018 | Personal
Exceedingly strange but true factoids about our nervous system. Werner Heisenberg, a giant of 20th century physics said, “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” Werner, whose name adorns the...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Feb 19, 2018 | Present
If we are extraordinarily lucky, once in a lifetime we get a chance to spend time with someone who is truly the very best in the world— or one of the best in the world—at what they do. Maybe we get a backstage pass to meet Bruce Springsteen before a concert, to sit...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 27, 2017 | Personal
James (not his real name) was a chain smoker, so we had to go outside the building to have the long conversation I was hoping for. I had reached out to James, an experienced interrogator, because I was as an intelligence officer interested in learning more...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Personal
In my last post in the Intelligence world, I got a new boss who was a retired three-star Admiral. The President had appointed him to the position for many reasons, one of which was that he was a practical, no-nonsense leader, who focused on the big picture. Because I...