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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.
February 28, 2009
First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who came to one of the events on my book tour, from Seattle to The Strand. Thank you for listening and for your questions. It's been such a deep pleasure to...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:11 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2009
In case you were wondering how you should invest your retirement savings (assuming you're fortunate enough to still have some), yet another study demonstrates that low cost index funds are the way to go: Basic stock market index funds generally...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 9:55 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2009
One of the frustrations with writing a science book is that you keep on bumping into brand new research that you want to include. That's precisely what happened to me when I read this just published paper in the Journal...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 8:53 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2009
For the last week, I've been suffering from one of those head colds that won't go away. The worst part of the cold isn't the raw nose, or the sinus headaches, or the scratchy throat - it's not being able...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:41 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2009
Over at Mind Matters, I recently interviewed Matthew Lieberman, a social neuroscientist at UCLA. The previous week I asked Ed Vul, lead author of the "Voodoo Correlations" paper a few questions, and I wanted to make sure I gave some...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:19 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2009
Being on book tour means that I watch way too much SportsCenter, since that's what I do when I can't sleep. And so, because it's mid-February, I've noticed that the ESPN anchors are already talking endlessly about March Madness, college...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 7:40 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 17, 2009
Paul Ekman, the eminent scientist behind micro facial expressions, dissects the unconscious tics of deceit used by A-Rod: Ms. Couric asked Mr. Rodriguez if he had ever been tempted to use illegal drugs. He answered with a simple "No" accompanied...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 4:42 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 16, 2009
The brain is like a Swiss Army knife, stuffed full of different mental tools that are well suited to different situations. Sometimes, we want to flex the prefrontal cortex, and really exert our rational muscles. And then there are other...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 12:15 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Self-promotion alert! If you're allergic to self-aggrandizing blog posts, then you'll probably want to stop reading now. But just a quick note to remind interested people that I'll be in the Bay Area this week, talking about decision-making, before returning...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:50 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 11, 2009
One of the perverse pleasures of spending too much time in airports is getting to people watch. I put on my "anthropologist from Mars" glasses and pass the time by staring at strangers, watching what they eat, read and how...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 5:34 PM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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