Three Questions for Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer was one of the first writers I befriended as I went into science writing. I did so before he published his first book. We became friends, blogged b...
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Oracles, Big Answers, & Pop Sci’s Neglect of Mystery
Ta-Nahesi Coates, pondering the downfall of Jonah Lehrer, writes: [W]e now live in a world where counter-intuitive bullshitting is valorized, where the pose of ...
Madness Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be: A Corrective
My post two days ago on the links between depression and creativity sparked some smart comments. Perhaps the best was sent to me privately by the excellent blog...
Jonah Lehrer Meets Stephen Fry – The Paradoxes of Bipolar and Creativity
Last night, reading the wonderful third chapter of Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine,* I came across some material, new to me, on the links between melancholy and cr...
Careful Erasing Those Memories, Says the Memory Master
Should we erase memories? Recently, in a recent, fascinating Wired feature, my friend and Wired colleague Jonah Lehrer looked at the looming possibility that we...
Why Behold Beauty? Because It’s Sociable.
This I could not resist: Ed Yong and Jonah Lehrer have written intriguing fine pieces about a new study of beauty — or rather, beauty’s appreciation. The ...
Charlie Sheen, Life & Genes, A Terrible Fall. Compare and contrast.
Sort and combine those title elements as you like. Here’s what’s aglitter in my net today: This guy climbs a pinnacle to ski down — but slips ...
Guardian podcast captures the richness of ScienceOnline & science blogging
I just finished listening to Alok Jha’s podcast at Guardian about ScienceOnline. What a pleasure! Jha gracefully captures what drives science (and all) bl...
Neuron Culture’s Best of Year
I resist best-of-year roundups when I see the heads — but then find I usually like reading them, and lo and behold, find it instructive to do my own. While most...
Aglitter in the Net
Recent favorites, notables, and retweets: Down on the Body Farm: Inside the Dirty World of Forensic Science A good read from the Atlantic. History of Female Mad...