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Fellow ScienceBlogger Jonah Lehrer's long-awaited book Proust Was a Neuroscientist is now shipping. Any chance you'll send a copy CogDaily's way, Jonah?
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Aaron Rowe suggests that scientists could profit by emulating the high-speed communications methods used by programmers and hackers. Anyone know of a science networking site?
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OmniBrain points out that this "test" that's been circulating around the web is nothing more than 21st century astrology. But it's still cool to try to "see" the figure spinning both ways.
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Excellent, practical advice
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We all know about Proust and his madeleine. One whiff of that buttery cookie, shaped like a seashell, and Proust suddenly remembered his long forgotten childhood in Combray. Proust makes it clear that his sense of smell was the trigger for his memory.
A new paper by scientists at the Weizmann Institute documents the primal connection between whiffs of smell and episodic memory.
I'm quickly learning that these webmagazines really don't like my book. This review, however, is actually rather thoughtful. Daniel Engber of Slate begins by pointing out that neuroscientists are constantly quoting Proust:
My book got a very nice little spread in the new Wired. There's a picture of me at an uncomfortable zoom and a short Q&A: