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Hits of the week past

Posted by David Dobbs on January 29, 2010
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Hits of the week: Savage Minds (with a spiffy website redesign) asks Why is there no Anthropology Journalism? Jerry Coyne takes sharp exception to both a paper and a SciAm Mind Matters article by Paul Andrews and Andy Thomson arguing that depression might be an evolutionary adaptation. Dr. Pangloss punches back. (NB: 1. I was…

“Critical Neuroscience” and the discomfort of being studied

Posted by David Dobbs on February 27, 2009
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I drove up to Montreal yesterday, and amid visits with anthropologist and Somatosphere founder Eugene Raikhel, anthropologist Allan Young, and Suparna Choudhury, talked about (among other things) the emerging new area of study they’re calling “critical neuroscience.” What the heck is critical neuroscience? Well, one definition calls it the attempt to assess and inform neuroscientific…