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What does it mean when a clinical trial fails? Probably not what you think.

Posted on April 17, 2018 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Today I published a story I’ve been working on, off and on, for exactly two years. “What Can We Learn When a Clinical Trial is Stopped” now on...

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Gourevitch and Langwiesche on GermanWings crash; play war and real war; Mad Men’s dark bright side.

Posted on March 27, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

A Bewildering Crash. Philip Gourevitch at The New Yorker. Just as the brevity of the flight, and the apparent spontaneity of the captain’s decision to leave the...

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Today’s Nobel was about how the brain navigates space. Here’s what happens when it can’t.

Posted on October 6, 2014 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

Today’s Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology went to a trio of researchers who figured out the basis of how the brain tracks and manages space, a task t...

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A game about depression draws fire, because misogyny.

Posted on September 10, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Women in tech get harassed for all sorts of idiotic reasons, mainly because the world, and perhaps tech in particular, seems overstuffed with misogynist creeps....

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Philip Seymour Hoffman says goodbye

Posted on August 11, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

As David Denby notes in a satisfying review, “A Most Wanted Man,” made from the John le Carre film of the same title, makes an apt goodbye from Philip Seymour H...

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Talking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman

Posted on July 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...

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Social Service is Depressing, Oil and Gas Are Fun – Jobs Rated by Depression Prevalence

Posted on June 10, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Depressing news you can use. Or possibly delight in, depending. From Neuroskeptic: An interesting study just published examines the rates of clinical depression...

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My Problem With John Horgan’s Problem With Optogenetics

Posted on August 30, 2013 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

There’s been a fair flap lately about John Horgan’s argument that optogenetics and its potential have been overhyped by both scientists and some jou...

Brains and Behavior/Culture

Madness, Genius, & Sherman’s Ruthless March (NC Moving Party Track #9)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

[Ed note: Originally posted March 2012. See note at bottom.] In 1864, in a move crucial to winning the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman led his army of some ...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/History of science

The Depression Map: Genes, Culture, Environment, and a Side of Pathogens

Posted on May 30, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This post, originally published  14 September, 2010, examines how genes and culture can apparently shape one another’s development and expression — a topi...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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