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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.
November 30, 2007
Don't worry, the period of shameless self-promotion is almost over. But Proust Was A Neuroscientist has been in the news lately. The San Francisco Chronicle had a very kind review: Interpreters of Woolf and Proust are legion, but Lehrer is...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 9:29 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2007
Ian McEwan is mischievous. He ends Enduring Love - a novel about a science writer - with a carefully faked psychiatric study from a non-existent British medical journal. Although the syndrome discussed in the article is real - De Clerambault's...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:13 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 28, 2007
Watching this clip of a kid who has spent way too much time on Guitar Hero 2 reminded me of the classic study of the somatosensory cortex in string players: Magnetic source imaging revealed that the cortical representation of the...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 2:57 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So the Times didn't think much of science books this year. Personally, I think the three big omissions from the "Notable" list are Musicophilia, Isaacson's Einstein and The Stuff of Thought. What other science books did you think were notable...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:21 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've never eaten Kobe beef from Japan, and now I never will. Authentic Kobe beef is essentially veal that isn't put out of its misery. Barry Estabrook, in the new Gourmet, investigates the real life of these very expensive cows...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 9:59 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2007
I like this just-so story. Here's Natalie Angier: Art, she [Ellen Dissanayake] and others have proposed, did not arise to spotlight the few, but rather to summon the many to come join the parade -- a proposal not surprisingly shared...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 9:58 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From Brad DeLong: If inherited genetically-based IQ were the source of the extra edge that the children of the rich get in our society, than we would expect a parent with 4 times average lifetime full-time earnings--say $200,000 a year--to...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 9:21 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2007
I'm quickly learning that these webmagazines really don't like my book. This review, however, is actually rather thoughtful. Daniel Engber of Slate begins by pointing out that neuroscientists are constantly quoting Proust: My career as a grad student in neuroscience...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 3:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Life is getting tough for the running backs of the NFL. First comes the news that becoming a star rusher doesn't require a Heisman Trophy or even a high-profile start in NCAA Division I-A: The debate has simmered for a...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:09 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And it comes with recipes, too! Here's Billy Collins: As soon as the elderly waiter placed before me the fish I had ordered, it began to stare up at me with its one flat, iridescent eye. I feel sorry for...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 9:27 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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