Barn cum Museum Takes Budding Cognitive Scientists by Storm

Harvard Medical School researcher and MIT Press author Dr. J. Allan Hobson (Dreaming as Delirium and The Dream Drugstore) has converted part of his barn into an "interactive sleep museum," reports Katie Zezima in today's New York Times. The Caledonia County farm owner envisions the museum--which features a "sleep chamber," a preserved brain, and multimedia presentations about the brain and dreams--as a pedagogical tool in a nationwide "sleep curriculum" that examines the encephalon and its activities in the land of Nod.