My So-Called Life:
For those who might be interested, I thought I'd post my book tour dates, since the tour officially kicks off today. Hope to see you there! November 1, 7 PM, Gibson's Bookstore, Concord, NH November 7, 7 PM, Barnes &...
Posted on November 1, 2007 10:55 AM • 7 Comments •
An excellent philosophical time-waster.
Posted on March 16, 2007 10:09 AM • 8 Comments •
Why some writerly inaccuracies are necessary.
Posted on March 15, 2007 10:59 AM • 18 Comments •
Walt Whitman anticipated some of the basic facts of modern neuroscience.
Posted on March 5, 2007 7:55 PM • 4 Comments •
How Whole Foods kept me from buying local produce.
Posted on February 28, 2007 10:55 AM • 7 Comments •
There are important adverse effects to getting an "elite" high school education
Posted on February 21, 2007 10:40 AM • 9 Comments •
How to grow a perfect tomato.
Posted on February 2, 2007 10:57 AM • 1 Comments •
I'm probably breaking some obscure copyright law by simply mentioning this website. For those who don't know, allofmp3.com features ridiculously cheap mp3 files: a song usually costs a dime, not a dollar. The catch? They are a shady Russian company...
Posted on October 18, 2006 10:08 AM • 5 Comments •
While we are on the theme of consilience, here's a pretty perfect paragraph of prose that captures the kind of Third Culture I fantasize about. It's from Primo Levi's The Periodic Table: Carbon is again among us, in a glass...
Posted on October 13, 2006 5:38 PM • 0 Comments •
This photograph made me laugh. Via The Superficial...
Posted on October 11, 2006 3:56 PM • 1 Comments •
As seen in the White Mountains of New Hampshire this weekend: If you want to read a wonderful book about this expansive Northern Forest, read this one by our very own David Dobbs....
Posted on October 8, 2006 4:56 PM • 0 Comments •
Sorry for the absence. I was giving a talk in NYC, where I had the pleasure of meeting PZ, Chris Mooney and Lisa Randall. (I was talking about how Walt Whitman anticipated the neuroscience of today.) I also had the...
Posted on September 28, 2006 10:10 AM • 8 Comments •
Is nothing sacred? I'm starting to wonder if nutrionists are the scientific version of fashion designers, and make sure to contradict their claims every few years or so, just to stay cutting edge. Anyways, I like breakfast. Noting gets me...
Posted on September 18, 2006 8:21 AM • 4 Comments •
I have had the tragic privilege of living in New York during 9/11 and London during 7/7. The two events are, of course, incomparable, if only because the falling skyscrapers puncutated our lives without warning. I still vividly remember the...
Posted on September 11, 2006 11:36 AM • 1 Comments •
Bill Simmons is right: I'd put Season 1 of "The Wire" against anything. The first three seasons of "The Sopranos." Seasons 1 or 2 of "24." The first seasons of "NYPD Blue," "ER" or "Miami Vice." You name it. I...
Posted on September 4, 2006 11:25 AM • 1 Comments •
It was the final exam of my freshman year. I was taking Intro to Psych, and I had just pulled an all-nighter. After a few minutes, I began to notice some odd paper shuffling off to my left. The kid...
Posted on September 4, 2006 9:55 AM • 5 Comments •
I'll be on vacation for the next ten days, and probably won't have much time to blog. In the meantime, I thought I'd leave everyone with a few random quotes. Even though these jingles have embedded themselves in my brain,...
Posted on August 21, 2006 2:39 PM • 0 Comments •
There are books, but also sleepy birds:...
Posted on August 16, 2006 1:57 PM • 1 Comments •
Scienceblogs is abuzz with discussion over the difficulty of melding family life and an academic career in science. Having worked for several years as a tech in an ambitious neuroscience lab, I'm amazed that post-docs even contemplate a family life....
Posted on July 25, 2006 10:38 AM • 9 Comments •
Considering that I've eaten my fair share of British beef (I lived in England for a few years, and had a soft spot for the hamburgers at my local gastropub), this study was not welcome news. Here is the NY...
Posted on June 23, 2006 10:03 AM • 1 Comments •
Please forgive this post, but as the proud parent of a cockatiel with an inverted beak (a common birth defect), it has long upset me that there is very little information available on the web about birds with this "problem"....
Posted on June 22, 2006 11:10 AM • 0 Comments •
As the proud owner of an African Grey Timneh who is preening herself on my shoulder right now, I thought my bird was adept at impersonations. Her name is Junebug (June to her friends), and she does a spot on...
Posted on June 14, 2006 12:25 PM • 2 Comments •
Writing the first line of your first blog is even harder than starting to write a book.
Posted on June 8, 2006 3:09 PM • 9 Comments •
Jonah Lehrer is an editor at large for Seed Magazine. His first book is Proust Was A Neuroscientist. Buy it here.
