Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy! -- Neuron Culture's Top 5 in June
Category: Books
Ozzy by a light year; Tourette's and goal-keeping; and a lotta meta media mulling
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I write articles on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications, and am working on my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which expands on my recent December 2009 Atlantic article. In August 2010, I'll be moving to London for a year to work on the book. I'll also serve as a senior fellow at City University London's MA science journalism program.
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Genetics & genomics (incl behav genetics):
Aglitter in the net: reading, writing, genes, and leaving your desk
Category: Brains and minds
What caught my eye the last few days
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What glitters in the net today
Category: Nota Bene
I'm 'posed to be writing, really writing (insert argument over what's really writing in comments), but hit so many juicy bits in my morning read today I wanted to share. Here's my eclectic mix for the day:
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20,000 genes a surprise? Heck, this guy knew that long ago
Category: Genetics & genomics (incl behav genetics)
I love this. The history of science is almost always richer and more variant-rich than we imagine.
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Carr, Pinker, the shallows, and the nature-nurture canard
Category: Brains and minds
Carr has stronger arguments, and I think he needs to set this one aside. For the most vital part of the "genetic heritage" he cites is the very adaptability or plasticity he likes to emphasize.
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Ozzy Osbourne. Now genomics is getting somewhere.
Category: Culture of science
There's been much hand-wringing lately over the failure of genomics advances to create medical advances. Now there's hope.
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Gleanings: mayfly radar, tennis memoir, et alia
Category: Art
Mayflys on radar, Agassi's memoir, climate change doubters, psycho theory of mind, and passing the buck to your genes
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"A nerve ending in a cotton sundress"
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Celeste was the product of emogenics, the breeding programme to optimizes genes and environments for those with heightened sensitivities to external stimuli. She was about as close as anyone had come to the ideal: she was a human nerve-ending in a cotton sundress.
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Lights, genes, action
Category: Brains and minds
This is a very slick tool that seems almost too far out to actually work. It lets you use light to turn brain circuits on and off at will, and with great precision. It's not simple to construct. But once constructed, it works simply.
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Gleanings from empathetic ravens, lying brains, dying converence, fading vocabularies, and new books
Category: Books
Our greatest distinction is that we're highly social. Yet in that we've got a lot of company.
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