easterner

The nice thing about writing features is that they're often solicited miles in advance so I can write something, totally forget about it and then be surprised when I open my weekly copy of New Scientist to find my name in a byline. This week's issue has a feature by me entitled "Beyond east and west: How the brain unites us all" (I like the title; I didn't write it). Following the piece I wrote on FOXP2, this is another of those "the media says this, but here's what's really going on" pieces. It's an exploration of the supposed cultural differences between East Asians and Westerners in the…