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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Book Reviews:
Science on Unscientific America: "Boo"
Category: Book Reviews
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:47 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:58 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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."...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:25 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:11 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:00 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
