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"Think
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The
Inner Savant, Discover Magazine, January 22, 2002 |
'Experimental
switch is a turn-on for the brain', The Weekend
Australian, May 19-20, 2001. |
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"Turn Off Tune In" New Scientist
October 1999. |
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'Brain Research
to Find That Moment of Genius', Sunday Times,
July 15, 2001. |
'Light research
makes big prize', The Australian, October 31,
2001. |
Marconi prize for
optical genius, The Daily Telegraph, December 6,
2001 |
Autism may hold key to mastering maths.
The Daily Telegraph London, March 22, 1999 |
Articles in 2002
Thursday, 18 April 'Thinking
Cap or Dunce's Hat', Wired Magazine.
Wenesday, 17 April 'Reawakening
the Creative Mind', BBC Website.
Thursday, 22 January
The Inner Savant , Discover Magazine, Online
Articles in 2001
Monday, 10 December 'Prizewinner
sees things differently', ABC Online
Friday, 7 December 'ANU scientist shares 2001 Marconi
Prize in New York', Canberra Times
Thursday, 6 December 'Philadelphia native shares $100000
Marconi Award', Philadelphia Inquirer
Thursday, 6 December 'Marconi prize for optical genius',
The Daily Telegraph, p26
Thursday, 6 December 'Marconi Fellows', The Australian
Financial Review
Thursday, 6 December - Campus Review, p.21. Marconi Prize
and Allan Snyder's research
'When scholars become service providers', The Sydney
Morning Herald, November 15, 2001
Wednesday, October 31 Light
research makes big prize', The Australian, October
31, 2001.
Sunday, July 15 'Brain
Research to Find That Moment of Genius', Sunday Times.
Saturday/Sunday, May 19-20 'Experimental
switch is a turn-on for the brain', The Weekend Australian.
Articles in 2000
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Sydney Morning Herald,
page 3. 'Power of one captivates indigenous champions'. "Peace"
Mandela explained, "is the greatest weapon in the world.
And those people who uphold the cause of peace are the real champions
of society, of the world."
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Sydney Morning Herald,
page 12. 'A champion calls for a fair and equal race'.
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Australian, page
25. 'The quest to find the makings of a champion led some of the
world's best minds to pose the big questions in a series of panel
discussions at a conference in Sydney yesterday.'
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Australian, page
25. 'Are there winning formulas?: Doing it tough gets the tough
going best'. "Is any mountain too high, any valley too low?
Setting dreams and overcoming adversity was the first subject
under discussion at the Centre for the Mind's seminar, What
Makes a Champion?, at Sydney University." "Anyone
who has had life easy doesn't know what it is all about"
(Pat O'Shane, Magistrate and University Chancellor).
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Australian, page
25. 'Who is responsible for success?: Key to attaining greatness
is someone to look up to'. "It has become more apparent over
the past two days that even champions need role models."
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Australian, page
25. 'Can you craft a champion?: Take equal parts nature and nurture...and
mix carefully'. "Some of the world's most revered geniuses
were high-school failures, but went on to achieve greatness through
encouragement and support."
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Australian, page
25. 'Does the end justify the means?: Discord over the harmony
of means and ends'. "How far will champions go to win? What
risks will they take? Those were the questions posed to the second
panel discussion at yesterday's conference."
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Australian, page
25. 'Honoured by degrees'. Mr Mandela was presented with honorary
Doctor of Laws degrees by the University of Technology Sydney
and the University of Sydney. Dame Leonie Kramer, Chancellor of
the University of Sydney, said Mr Mandela was recognised as one
of the most significant figures of the 20th century.
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Australian, page
25. 'Don't be afraid of long climb to reach your dream: Hillary'.
"The conqueror of Everest began as a child who could not
be bothered with brighter and more athletic peers but walked for
hours, 'dreaming about adventure and the exciting things I'd like
to do', Edmund Hillary said yesterday."
Tuesday, 5 September 2000 - The Australian, page
25. 'Nobel-winning scientist spells out what it takes to make
it'. "Dr Doherty said champions were 'nonpareil', meaning
peerless, or 'a small flat chocolate drop covered with butter.'
'Many of our champions are like that: extraordinary in one dimension
but low key and even trivial in others. In short, real heroes
are flawed and human.'"
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Age, front page.
'Mandela's Olympic plea: It is time to make a fairer world, says
South Africa's former President'. "Mr Mandela was introduced
by Prime Minister John Howard, who described him as a man who
'has made an impact of a scale that is unmatched in his generation,
and in the eyes of many, in any generation.'"
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Australian, front
page. 'Mandela minds his words'. "Mr Mandela was greeted
with rapturous applause from assembled luminaries including mountain
climber Sir Edmund Hillary, Olympic legend Herb Elliott and Nobel
Prize winning scientist Peter Doherty."
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Sydney Morning Herald,
front page. 'Touch of the hand that rocked the world'. "One
of the most difficult things if not so much to change society,"
said this great changer of society, Nelson Mandela, "but
to change ourselves".
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Canberra Times,
front page. 'Mandela grace has greats in awe'. "A frail grey-haired
man shuffled into the room to join luminaries, including Sir Edmund
Hillary, Herb Elliott and Peter Doherty and immediately stole
the limelight as applause enveloped him. The man was Nelson Mandela."
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Age, page 2. 'How
Nelson Mandela didn't meet his hero, The Don'. "The event's
organiser, Allan Snyder, believes that we all have the potential.
Think about that: you, too, could disarm the Iraqis, or climb
the world's tallest mountain, or run 1500 metres faster than anybody
else."
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Herald Sun, page
2. 'Racial accord in our hands'.
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Daily Telegraph,
page 3. 'A human treasure: Mandela captures loving audience'.
"Grey-haired and imposing, Nelson Mandela was greeted yesterday
as first among equals by perhaps the most imposing forum of high-profile
personalities ever assembled in Australia."
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Australian, page
19. 'It takes more than physique to be a champion. A group of
the world's best minds are putting their heads together in Sydney
to define the other attributes for success.'
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Australian, page
19. 'Stars of the arts believe character is the vital ingredient'.
Interview with What Makes a Champion? participants Yvonne
Kenny, Roger Woodward and Simon Tedeschi.
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Australian, page
19. 'What Makes a Champion?'. Richard Butler, UN ambassador, Pat
O'Shane, magistrate, Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Everest,
Julie Hammer, most senior woman in the Australian Defence Force,
Herb Elliott, athlete and businessman, and Peter Doherty, Nobel
Prize winner, offer their thoughts on what makes a champion.
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Australian, page
19. 'Mandela spreads magic spell'. "In Nelson Mandela's eyes,
a true champion is a person who sets aside selfishness and enmity
in favour of the collective good."
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Australian, page
19. 'Howard praises a hero of our time'. "It was appropriate
and 'very Australian' that Sydney should host an intellectual
inquiry on the eve of the Olympics delving into how champions
came to be made in every field of endeavour, John Howard said
yesterday."
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Australian, page
19. 'Olympian qualities under the microscope.' "As the world's
finest athletes begin to stream into Sydney, Allan Snyder has
assembled some of the greatest minds to examine what separates
an Olympian from the average person."
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Australian, page
19. 'Elliott defends athletes in face of O'Shane claim'. Magistrate
and Chancellor of the University of New England, Pat O'Shane,
created controversy at the What Makes a Champion? event
by suggesting that she would by surprised, "if there were
any athletes who didn't use drugs." She said the issue of
drugs in sport raised questions about the way in which societies
were organised: "In particular, the role that money plays
in sport as entertainment, and the emphasis that is placed on
winning at all costs."
Monday, 4 September 2000 - The Australian, page
19. 'Exemplars of excellence'. "A who's who of distinguished
Australian and overseas guests from the arts, academia, sport
and business will gather at Sydney University today for the
What Makes a Champion? seminar."
2-3 September, 2000 - The Weekend Australian, Review,
page 2-3. 'Brains or Brawn: Who are our heroes?' "You don't
have to serve, run or swim the fastest to be a champion, Fiona
Harari writes, but in Australia it sure helps." According
to Herb Elliott, "everybody who has risen to the top in their
field of endeavour is a champion...our top businesspeople, our
top artists, our top scientists, our top academics."
Friday, 1 September 2000 - The Australian. Article
in the opinion section of The Australian newspaper,
September 1st, entitled "Great
Minds Think Big"
September 2000 The September issue of Golf Australia
will feature an interview with Professor Allan Snyder on
What Makes a Champion? in relation to
golfing champions.
August 2000 The Weekend Australian will run
an Olympics feature, including an interview with Professor Snyder
and Herb Elliott.
August 2000 The August edition of ‘Boss’,
the Australian Financial Review’s national monthly
management magazine, will feature an interview with Herb Elliott
by the editor, Helen Trinca.
August 2000 Hilton Happenings, a national publication,
will run a story and photograph of Professor Allan Snyder in its
August edition.
18 July 2000 An extensive article by Catherine Fox
appeared in the Australian Financial Review, including
an interview and photograph of Professor Snyder, details of the
What Makes a Champion?
event and its participants. See Brain
joins Olympic Brawn.pdf
11 July 2000 Professor Allan Snyder interviewed by
Catherine Fox from the Australian Financial Review, for
an article focusing on the business elements of the What
Makes a Champion? event, including the attending
business ‘champions’ and delegates and what they will
each contribute, what they will get out of it, the role of the
intellectual partners and how their organisations will benefit.
11 July 2000 Professor Snyder was interviewed by
Rod Morri for the September issue of Golf Australia. The
article is to have a golf slant, referring to golfing champions
in an exploration of What Makes a Champion?. See
the September issue of Golf Australia for the full interview.
4 July 2000 Professor Snyder interviewed by Stephanie
Peating from the Sydney Morning Herald for an article on
the What Makes a Champion?
event.
4 July 2000 Article in the Australian Financial
Review (Nationally) on the What
Makes a Champion? event by Andrew Burrell in the ‘Rear
Window’ column.
3 July 2000 Professor Snyder interviewed by Bruce
McDougall for stories for the Daily Telegraph, Courier-Mail,
Adelaide Advertiser and the Herald-Sun.
25 June 2000 An article on Professor Snyder and the
Centre for the Mind’s Creative Mind Prizes School Essay Competition
appeared in the Canberra Times, entitled ‘Mind how
you see life in its glory: Researchers trying to lift the mist
from our brains’. The article also features an interview
with Creative Mind Prizes winner, Anna Ougrinovskaia. To view
the article…
16 June 2000 A write-up on the What Makes a
Champion? event is included in the ANU
Reporter (page 3) and mention made (page 4) of Professor
Snyder’s selection as one of 13 outstanding Australian scientists
of the 20th Century for the Cavalcade of Australian
Scientists as announced at the Tall Poppy Dinner 2000 in Melbourne.
The Cavalcade recognises scientists spanning the 20th
Century who have undertaken their major work in Australia.
14 June 2000 Professor Snyder’s book review ‘Mind
your emotions’ appeared in the Australian Review of Books.
To view the article
19 May 2000 The Age carries the story ‘Mandela
to speak at local venue’.
19 May 2000 The Age includes a write-up of
the Tall Poppy event, at which Professor Allan Snyder was one
of 13 eminent Australian scientists honoured for their achievements.
For more information
on this event.
6 May 2000 The Sydney Morning Herald, in an article
entitled ‘Grey matter: ages does bring wisdom’, quoted
Allan Snyder on the non-conscious mind, and his belief that we
could all have access to virtuoso talents if we could switch off
consciousness.
8-9 April 2000 ‘Their Winning Ways’ appeared
in the Weekend Australian. Professor Allan Snyder considers
the essence of championship in the third of a series of occasional
articles.To view the article in pdf format, click here.
31 March 2000 ‘Champion debate for clever country’
appeared in The Australian. The article outlines how Nelson
Mandela is to head a "who’s who of international heavyweights"
at the What Makes a Champion? event.
21 March 2000 The Australia’s IT section
reviews the Centre for the Mind’s website asking "Besides
brains and influence, what do Phillip Adams, Baz Luhrmann, Lachlan
Murdoch and Professor Oliver Sacks have in common? They are all
on centreforthemind.com, of course".
January 2000
On January 10th the Australian Financial Review published
an article on Prof Allan Snyder of the Centre for the Mind and
Jack Pettigrew, one of the key speakers at the Centre's conference
on Geniuses, Prodigies &
Savants. The article was entitled ‘The
secret powers of the brain’
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