Iran and the Risk Premium
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Why the threat of war is profitable for Iran.
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:27 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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.
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March 30, 2007
March 29, 2007
Whale Sharks in Captivity
Category: Culture
If you put a whale shark in an aquarium, it's a death sentence.
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:18 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bush is a Hedgehog
Category: Culture
The problem with Bush's thought process.
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:42 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2007
David Sedaris and Imaginary Memories
Category: Neuroscience
Why we shouldn't trust our memories.
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:43 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2007
The Surprises of Cardiology
Category: Culture
It was a day of unexpected findings for the field of cardiology. First, there was the news that patients with stents did not have a longer life span or a reduced number of heart attacks compared to patients treated with...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2007
Physical Theories as Women
Category: Culture
This is the funniest thing I've read today. Over at McSweeney's, Simon Dedeo compares our physical theories to types of women: 0. Newtonian gravity is your high-school girlfriend. As your first encounter with physics, she's amazing. You will never forget...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 4:27 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Medical Salaries
Category: Culture
High salaries come with high expectations.
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 12:39 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2007
Attention, Sensation and Mystery
Category: Neuroscience
Do banal terms like "executive control" or "top-down processing" hide a deeper mystery?
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 22, 2007
Morality, Psychopaths and Emotions
Category: Neuroscience
More evidence on the crucial importance of emotion when making moral decisions.
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:30 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2007
Don't Waste Good Wine on Food
Category: Culture
I used to work in a restaurant where we served wild salmon with a Barolo sauce. (This was back when drinking red wine with fish was still very au courant.) Needless to say, the chef wasn't wasting real Barolo on...
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