Vacation
A note to my readers: I'll be on vacation for the next week, so please pardon the sporadic posting. Thanks, Jonah...
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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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July 24, 2007
The Honesty of Autism
Category: Culture
Simon Baron-Cohen, of mindblindness fame, uses autism to examine the psychology of dishonesty. He concludes that the central reason people with autism are so honest (and so vulnerable to liars) is that they have difficulty developing a theory of mind...
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Great Moments in Scientific Theorizing
Category: Culture
This truth thing is difficult: In 1977, Steven Weinberg, then two years shy of the Nobel Prize in Physics, decided to do a little of what some theorists call "ambulance chasing." He heard a rumor, while spending a year at...
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July 23, 2007
The Marketing of A Primate
Category: Culture
Are bonobos really such peaceful beatniks? Is is true that they like to make love, not war? The truth is that nobody really knows. Ian Parker has a fascinating profile of the species, and our attempts to learn about the...
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Bad Jury Verdicts
Category: Culture
False convictions are a by-product of our psychology
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July 20, 2007
Movement in Slow Motion
Category: Culture
This is the coolest study of movement since Muybridge....
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Golf, Choking and the Unconscious
Category: Culture
Why athletes choke.
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July 19, 2007
Morality and Materialism
Category: Culture
Ramesh Ponnuru, of the National Review, says this: What renders atheism incompatible with a coherent account of morality, when it is incompatible, is physicalism (or what is sometimes described as reductive materialism). If it is true that the universe consists...
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Mobs and Neuroscience
Category: Culture
Some crimes are beyond the pale of comprehension. This is one of those: After dark on June 18, the police say, as many as 10 armed assailants repeatedly raped a Haitian immigrant in her apartment at Dunbar Village and then...
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July 18, 2007
Chomsky for Breakfast
Category: Culture
Via Language Log...
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