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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.
May 31, 2007
Category: Culture
The physicist David Ruelle gives a convincing demonstration that suspending the gravitational effect on our atmosphere of one electron at the limit of the observable universe would take no more than two weeks to make a difference in Earth's weather...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 1:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2007
Category: Culture
So there's an interesting debate over at TPM Cafe about this article in the Nation, which argues that neoclassical economics (the mainstream) suppresses its heterodox alternatives. If true, this would be a classic case of a Kuhnian paradigm, in which...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 12:32 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture
Lou Dobbs has repeatedly asserted on his CNN show that there have been 7,000 cases of leprosy in the US over the previous three years. If true, that statistic would represent a stunning increase. Dobbs' insinuation, of course, was that...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:39 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
David Brooks uses neuroscience to criticize Al Gore's latest book: [Gore's argument] grows out of a bizarre view of human nature. Gore seems to have come up with a theory that the upper, logical mind sits on top of, and...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:39 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture
Here's a great L.A. Times editorial on the various policy options that we can use to combat climate change. The editorial comes out firmly against regulation (simply ordering polluters to clean up), and mounts a reasoned criticism of cap-and-trade schemes...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:15 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
It works. Dick Cheney shows how to do it: These are events [9/11] we can never forget. And they are scenes the enemy would like to see played out in this country over and over again, on a larger and...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 2:51 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
The importance of investing in pre-K education
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 24, 2007
Category: Culture
We are surprisingly bad at it: Although last year was quieter than anticipated and the storms of 2005 caused the Weather Service to raise its prediction, the number of tropical storms predicted in May was within the expected range in...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:41 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture
So the Yankees aren't quite as bad as we've been led to believe. (At least, until Petite also pulls his hamstring.) They've taken two of the last three from the Red Sox. That said, it's still obvious that the Yankees...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:23 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 22, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
From the March 31 issue of The Lancet: The ease of getting to sleep and staying asleep depends not only on previous wake time, but also on associations with the circadian rhythm of core temperature. Sleep is easiest to initiate...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 9:55 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
