Video Book Review: How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
Category: Psychology
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Owen's Ape & Darwin's Bulldog, by Christopher Cosans
Category: Biology
Originally posted by Brian Switek On March 10, 2009, at 11:14 AM In 1857 Richard Owen proposed that our species, Homo sapiens, belonged to a distinct subclass separate from all other primates. He called this new group the Archencephala and...
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Neuroscience education. . . byte by byte? (The Instant Egghead Guide to the Mind, by Emily Anthes)
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Jessica Palmer On March 7, 2009, at 11:00 PM 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...
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Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, by Gary Marcus
Category: Neuroscience
Originally posted by Seth Herd at Developing Intelligence On February 24, 2009, at 12:00 PM I disagree with many of Gary Marcus's theories, but I think that his book Kluge is important, entertaining, and even accurate. The book's main thesis...
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Are You an Egghead? The Instant Egghead Guide to the Mind, by Emily Anthes
Category: Book Review
Review by Scicurious, from Neurotopia Originally published on: February 5, 2009 1:45 AM I am an unabashed lover of Scientific American. Well, ok, I'm also a grad student. So I can't AFFORD Scientific American. But luckily, Scientific American has podcasts!...
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