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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.
June 29, 2007
Category: Culture
A comic discussion on the origins of life, the moral status of sperm, abortion and a few other not-safe-for-work topics. (It's a deleted scene from Knocked Up, which everybody should see, right after they see Ratatouille.) Judd Apatow, by the...
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Category: Culture
Are cities like biological organisms?
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June 28, 2007
Category: Culture
The stunning glass flowers at Harvard's Museum of Natural History.
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:59 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture
This interview with the novelist from The Believer is a few months old, but it's well worth a read: Something truly interesting is happening in many basic sciences, a real revolution in human knowing. For a long time--centuries--empiricism has tried...
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June 27, 2007
Category: Culture
An intriguing hypothesis: Gopnik argues that babies are not only conscious, they are more conscious than adults. Her argument for this view begins with the idea that people in general -- adults, that is -- have more conscious experience of...
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Category: Neuroscience
Selective brain damage makes us more rational investors.
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June 26, 2007
Category: Culture
According to a new study, conservative Muslim dress codes might be causing serious health problems for Muslim women: In certain Middle Eastern and other countries where conservative dress curtails exposure to sunlight, high levels of vitamin D supplementation may be...
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Category: Culture
I've discovered my new favorite example of artists and scientists working together. It features Cecil Balmond, an engineer for Arup, and Anish Kapoor, the Turner-Prize winning sculptor. They collaborated on Marsyas, the spectacular 2003 installation inside the Tate Modern. David...
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June 22, 2007
Category: Culture
David Brooks makes a good point: A little while ago, a national study authorized by Congress found that abstinence education programs don't work. That gave liberals a chance to feel superior because it turns out that preaching traditional morality to...
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June 21, 2007
Category: Culture
This is what happens when a wine critic decides to scientifically test his sense of taste: She first handed me a cotton swab and instructed me to rub it vigorously against the inside of one of my cheeks. This was...
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