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Tag: Jonah Lehrer

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Three Questions for Jonah Lehrer

Posted on February 11, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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

Posted on August 6, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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 ...

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Madness Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be: A Corrective

Posted on April 12, 2012 by David Dobbs / 10 Comments

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...

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Jonah Lehrer Meets Stephen Fry – The Paradoxes of Bipolar and Creativity

Posted on April 9, 2012 by David Dobbs / 3 Comments

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...

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Careful Erasing Those Memories, Says the Memory Master

Posted on March 6, 2012 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

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...

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Why Behold Beauty? Because It’s Sociable.

Posted on July 21, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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 ...

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Charlie Sheen, Life & Genes, A Terrible Fall. Compare and contrast.

Posted on March 2, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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 ...

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Guardian podcast captures the richness of ScienceOnline & science blogging

Posted on January 24, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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...

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Neuron Culture’s Best of Year

Posted on January 5, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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...

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Aglitter in the Net

Posted on December 2, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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...

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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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