Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain
New York Times Magazine
In 2005, Sebastian Seung suffered the academic equivalent of an existential crisis. More than a decade earlier, with a Ph.D. ...
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Steven Pinker’s Sense of Style
Mind Matters
Writing guides tend to be pretty unsatisfying. They offer plenty of concrete rules, but why, a reader might ask, should the rules be followed? The ...
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Why Abraham Lincoln Loved Infographics
NewYorker.com
Near the end of 1861, with the American Union crumbling, President Abraham Lincoln became obsessed with an unusual document. Nearly three feet in length, it ...
Read more →A True and Complete Account of the Neuroscience of Zombies
Mind Matters
The wait has been long, but the discipline of neuroscience has finally delivered a full-length treatment of the zombie phenomenon. In their book, Read more →
What About Denise?
NewYorker.com
In 1991, the Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi was honored with the Pritzker Prize, the profession’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. He was widely considered a ...
Read more →A New Way to do Nuclear
NewYorker.com
In February of 2010, Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie, two M.I.T. students, were sitting on a bench in a soaring marble lobby under the university’s ...
Read more →Why We Are Wired to Connect
Mind Matters
When we experience social pain — a snub, a cruel word — the feeling is as real as physical pain. That finding is among those ...
Read more →A Country Built by Obsessives
Mind Matters
Thomas Jefferson, the third president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, kept detailed accounts to track every penny he spent. Steve Jobs was ...
Read more →Doubting 'Darwin's Doubt'
NewYorker.com
In the eighteen-eighties, workers carving a path for Canada’s first transcontinental railway began to notice odd creatures in the rocks. A geologist working for the ...
Read more →Brain Games are Bogus
NewYorker.com
A decade ago, a young Swedish researcher named Torkel Klingberg made a spectacular discovery. He gave a group of children computer games designed to boost ...
Read more →The Nocebo Effect: How We Worry Ourselves Sick
NewYorker.com
Many of us hope to find Wi-Fi wherever we go, preferably for free. But some people devote their lives to avoiding Wi-Fi altogether. Sufferers of ...
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Autism Inc.
New York Times Magazine
When Thorkil Sonne and his wife, Annette, learned that their 3-year-old son, Lars, had autism, they did what any parent who has faith in reason ...
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The Dark Side of Happiness
Boston Globe
You can be happy starting today! Don't sit by any longer, while friends and co-workers enjoy the good life. Happiness is yours for the taking: ...
Read more →Modern psychology's God problem
Boston Globe
THINK ABOUT something that is very important to you. Like the ability to walk, or your vision. Now carefully visualize an entire day without it. ...
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Untangling the Mystery of the Inca
Wired
Incan civilization was a technological marvel. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1532, they found an empire that spanned nearly 3,000 miles, from present-day Ecuador ...
Read more →Beehive management
Boston Globe
FOR THOSE interested in doing a better job of managing people - supporting them, inspiring them to greatness - there is plenty of advice out ...
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Doubting 'Darwin's Doubt'
NewYorker.com
In the eighteen-eighties, workers carving a path for Canada’s first transcontinental railway began to notice odd creatures in the rocks. A geologist working for the ...
Read more →A New Way to do Nuclear
NewYorker.com
In February of 2010, Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie, two M.I.T. students, were sitting on a bench in a soaring marble lobby under the university’s ...
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How Crowdsourcing is Changing Science
Boston Globe
At the end of the 19th century, a team of British archeologists happened upon what is now one of the world’s most treasured trash dumps. The ...
Read more →Do Plants Think?
Mind Matters
How aware are plants? This is the central question behind a fascinating new book, “What a Plant Knows,” by Daniel Chamovitz, director of ...
Read more →Why Scientists are Boycotting a Publisher
Boston Globe
THE SCIENTIFIC community finds itself at the beginning of its own Arab Spring. At stake are values that all Americans hold dear: the free flow ...
Read more →Desperate parents chase a stem-cell miracle
Boston Globe
SUTTON — Many children have dreams about flying — soaring on wings, maybe, or zooming around like Superman. James Rossetti, a blue-eyed 15-year-old, says he ...
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Autism Inc.
New York Times Magazine
When Thorkil Sonne and his wife, Annette, learned that their 3-year-old son, Lars, had autism, they did what any parent who has faith in reason ...
Read more →Brain Games are Bogus
NewYorker.com
A decade ago, a young Swedish researcher named Torkel Klingberg made a spectacular discovery. He gave a group of children computer games designed to boost ...
Read more →The Nocebo Effect: How We Worry Ourselves Sick
NewYorker.com
Many of us hope to find Wi-Fi wherever we go, preferably for free. But some people devote their lives to avoiding Wi-Fi altogether. Sufferers of ...
Read more →The Power of Introverts
Mind Matters
Do you enjoy having time to yourself, but always feel a little guilty about it? Then Susan Cain’s “Quiet : The Power of Introverts” ...
Read more →The Secret Language Code
Mind Matters
Are there hidden messages in your emails? Yes, and in everything you write or say, according to James Pennebaker, chair of the department of psychology ...
Read more →The Perfect Gift
Boston Globe
THE HIGH season of gifts is now upon us, and it is time to face a few uncomfortable truths: You do not know what most ...
Read more →The Truth about Autism
Boston Globe
THERE IS, living among us, a group of people with remarkable intellectual gifts. They excel at spotting patterns despite huge distractions. They are able to discern ...
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A True and Complete Account of the Neuroscience of Zombies
Mind Matters
The wait has been long, but the discipline of neuroscience has finally delivered a full-length treatment of the zombie phenomenon. In their book, Read more →
How to Manage a Creative Organization
Mind Matters
What allows a creative enterprise—a film studio, a design firm, a start-up—to flourish? It’s an old question, but one that has become increasingly relevant in ...
Read more →Steven Pinker’s Sense of Style
Mind Matters
Writing guides tend to be pretty unsatisfying. They offer plenty of concrete rules, but why, a reader might ask, should the rules be followed? The ...
Read more →Secrets of the Criminal Mind
Mind Matters
What is science revealing about the nature of the criminal mind? Adrian Raine, a professor at the university of Pennsylvania, is an expert in the ...
Read more →Mind Theorist
Scientific American
Have you ever stopped to consider what a brilliant mind reader you are? If someone in your field of view experiences a sudden happy thought ...
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The Brilliance of the Dog Mind
Mind Matters
Just about every dog owner is convinced their dog is a genius. For a long time, scientists did not take their pronouncements particularly seriously, but ...
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The Brittle Star's Apprentice
Scientific American
AMONG THE FIRST things you notice when you step into the corner office of Harvard University professor Joanna Aizenberg are the playthings. Behind her desk ...
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How to Stop Bullying
Mind Matters
In January of 2010, a teenage girl named Phoebe Prince walked home from school, let herself into the family apartment and hung herself in a ...
Read more →Psychologists Put "Character" Under Microscope — and it Vanishes
Mind Matters
What can science reveal about our “character” — that core of good, or evil, that shapes our moral behavior? The answer, according to a new ...
Read more →Reverse Engineering the Human Brain
Mind Matters
What makes us who we are? Where is our personal history recorded, or our hopes? What explains autism or schiziphrenia or remarkable genius? Sebastian Seung ...
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Modern psychology's God problem
Boston Globe
THINK ABOUT something that is very important to you. Like the ability to walk, or your vision. Now carefully visualize an entire day without it. ...
Read more →Autism Inc.
New York Times Magazine
When Thorkil Sonne and his wife, Annette, learned that their 3-year-old son, Lars, had autism, they did what any parent who has faith in reason ...
Read more →Did the Solutreans settle America first?
Boston Globe
Science agrees on this much: For most of their history, the Americas were a vast land with no people. Our ancestors left Africa and populated ...
Read more →What About Denise?
NewYorker.com
In 1991, the Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi was honored with the Pritzker Prize, the profession’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. He was widely considered a ...
Read more →A New Way to do Nuclear
NewYorker.com
In February of 2010, Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie, two M.I.T. students, were sitting on a bench in a soaring marble lobby under the university’s ...
Read more →Steven Pinker’s Sense of Style
Mind Matters
Writing guides tend to be pretty unsatisfying. They offer plenty of concrete rules, but why, a reader might ask, should the rules be followed? The ...
Read more →The Dark Side of Happiness
Boston Globe
You can be happy starting today! Don't sit by any longer, while friends and co-workers enjoy the good life. Happiness is yours for the taking: ...
Read more →Why Abraham Lincoln Loved Infographics
NewYorker.com
Near the end of 1861, with the American Union crumbling, President Abraham Lincoln became obsessed with an unusual document. Nearly three feet in length, it ...
Read more →Brain Games are Bogus
NewYorker.com
A decade ago, a young Swedish researcher named Torkel Klingberg made a spectacular discovery. He gave a group of children computer games designed to boost ...
Read more →Why We Are Wired to Connect
Mind Matters
When we experience social pain — a snub, a cruel word — the feeling is as real as physical pain. That finding is among those ...
Read more →Doubting 'Darwin's Doubt'
NewYorker.com
In the eighteen-eighties, workers carving a path for Canada’s first transcontinental railway began to notice odd creatures in the rocks. A geologist working for the ...
Read more →The Nocebo Effect: How We Worry Ourselves Sick
NewYorker.com
Many of us hope to find Wi-Fi wherever we go, preferably for free. But some people devote their lives to avoiding Wi-Fi altogether. Sufferers of ...
Read more →The single-sex school myth
Boston Globe
OVER THE last decade, a new solution to the crisis in public education has emerged. Recent neuroscience, the thinking goes, is finally showing that the brains ...
Read more →The Power of Introverts
Mind Matters
Do you enjoy having time to yourself, but always feel a little guilty about it? Then Susan Cain’s “Quiet : The Power of Introverts” ...
Read more →In godless we don’t trust
Boston Globe
THIS CAMPAIGN season, much has been made of Mitt Romney's faith and whether his Mormonism represents an insurmountable barrier in his quest for the presidency. But ...
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