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Thinking (and writing) about how we think

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A review of Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide: think about how you think, but don't overthink it.

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Science on Unscientific America: "Boo"

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Reviewer Jerry Coyne appears to have some of the same reservations I do ("Mooney and Kirshenbaum also fail to support their contention that the knowledge gap between scientists and the public is increasing") - but he ends up voting thumbs...

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Unscientific America: like speed-dating at science policy happy hour

Category: Book Reviews

The initial reviews of Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum's new book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future produced a small blogospheric kerfuffle last month. But I think Unscientific America has much more constructive and useful things to offer...

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Scientists are a heterogeneous mixture (perhaps even an emulsion?)

Category: Blogosphere

Janet has a very interesting post over at Adventures in Ethics, springboarding off Chris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum's new book Unscientific America. She discusses a key concept that seems obvious, but constantly ends up being ignored by both pro-science and...

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Unscientific Poopyhead America!

Category: Books

Wow: it looks like PZ Myers and his fans are embroiled in a bit of a kerfuffle with Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum and their adherents over the new Mooney/Kirshenbaum book, Unscientific America. First, PZ says the book is "useless."...

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"Contrary to their expectations?" Really? Personal experience in science communication

Category: DC

Last Friday, in my post on Nature's comprehensive coverage of science journalism, I mentioned the recent Nature Biotechnology conference paper on science communications co-authored by scibling Matt Nisbet. I also said I'd come back to one of the points in...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains

Category: Book Reviews

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a surprisingly fun read

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Neuroscience education. . . byte by byte?

Category: Books

Brevity can be a creative coup. Consider Claire Evans' "Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds", which shoehorns our entire history into one minute: as the clock slowly ticks away, it makes me fear for a moment - implausible as it...

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