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By dmunger on October 5, 2006.
  • Chris Chatham on the relationship between psychology and neuroscience
  • Why healthy people call in sick for work
  • Excellent long analysis of Isabel Peretz's "The Nature of Music from a biological perspective"
  • For the attention-impaired: Excellent, shorter analysis of the above analysis
  • Hey, we've got something to say about Peretz, too!
  • More discussion on the nature of music
  • Related but different: Figure out how to quantify people's tastes and win a million bucks

Update: A bonus link, which offers some support for something my 14-year-old son has been saying for a long time:

The Daily Show just as substantive as regular TV news

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