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Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired. He's also written for The New Yorker, Seed, Nature, the Boston Globe and is a contributor to Radio Lab. He's the author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist. His new book is How We Decide.
July 31, 2006
Category: Culture
I'm still puzzled over why Floyd Landis might have taken testosterone. After all, bicyclists are supposed to be svelte, and injecting yourself with a little hormone the night after a tough ride probably wouldn't lead to increased muscle recovery in...
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July 29, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
Well, sort of. A well-timed insult by Materazzi also helped. But the WSJ reports today that several members of the Italian team used neurofeedback earlier this year to help hone their powers of concentration: In February, months before the tournament...
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July 27, 2006
Category: Culture
After my last post on the frustrating inefficiencies of experimental failure, I recieved an interesting comment: I discovered in the late stages of graduate school that my extremely long hours (upwards of 80/week) were extraordinarily unproductive. I was doing cell...
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July 26, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
The NY Times Magazine described an interesting study that I'd never heard about before: A study of French youngsters adopted between the ages of 4 and 6 shows the continuing interplay of nature and nurture. Those children had little going...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 12:55 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
Small Gray Matters has an insightful post on the recent mirror neuron debate here at Scienceblogs. While I think a dose of skepticism is always helpful (especially when big mysteries like "empathy" and "theory of mind" are being tossed around),...
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July 25, 2006
Category: My So-Called Life
Scienceblogs is abuzz with discussion over the difficulty of melding family life and an academic career in science. Having worked for several years as a tech in an ambitious neuroscience lab, I'm amazed that post-docs even contemplate a family life....
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July 24, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
Mixing Memory tosses a helpful bucket of cold water on the mirror neuron frenzy. The post focuses on the hypothesis that mirror neurons were a crucial ingredient in the development of human language. While I think much of the skepticism...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 12:25 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 22, 2006
Category: Culture
So we lost the stem cell battle this year. Moral self-righteousness once again defeated pragmatic common sense. Of course, important political progress was made: Congress supported science, and Bush was forced to veto a popular bill. So what should we...
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July 20, 2006
Category: Culture
The new Tesla has officially been unveiled. Wired has already taken it for a test drive: He releases the brake and my head snaps back. One-one-thousand: I get a floating feeling, like going over the falls in a roller coaster....
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Category: Culture
The Wellcome Trust just announced the winners of the 2006 Biomedical Image Awards. The pictures are absolutely stunning: Here is a goblet cell, which line the inside of the intestine and respiratory system. And here is a cerebellar granule cell,...
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