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Read 2: Trouble at Vassar, peace in Rwanda, success at the Strand. Plus Angela Merkel’s secret & how brains create agency.

Posted on December 1, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel. By George Packer at The New Yorker John Kornblum, a former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, who still lives in Berlin, said, “...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Published elsewhere

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...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Psychiatry/Readings

The Limits of Lawyers, Murderers, Maggots, and Brain Scans

Posted on July 25, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Anne Fausto-Sterling is killing it lately on the brain and gene beat. She does so again here with On Maggots and Brain Scans What do brain images really tell us...

Books/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Readings/Writing

The Neuroscience of Disillusionment

Posted on March 25, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The brain craze was bound to go through the usual hype cycle, so we shouldn’t be surprised that some of us are rolling back our enthusiasms for brain-base...

Biology/Brains and Behavior

Sex Reverses Cognitive Decline of Aging. At Least in Rats.

Posted on January 24, 2014 by David Dobbs / 3 Comments

From the lab of Liz Gould, who quite knows her neurogenesis; she’s one of those who proved a few years back that it occurs, despite insistence by many tha...

Biology/Books/Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science

Novels Change Your Brain. So What?

Posted on January 6, 2014 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

A recent study found that reading novels appears to alter one’s brain connectivity — a revelation that immediately spurred a lot of coverage, and I can se...

Brains and Behavior/Culture

Is Solitary Confinement Torture? If So, We’re Torturing 80,000 Prisoners.

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

Humans are deeply social organisms; they need company almost as badly as they need food and water. I confess I thought this was obvious enough that, though I kn...

Brains and Behavior/Psychiatry

Can A Flashy Thing Cure OCD? Sorta, In Mice.

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

All mice groom themselves to keep their fur clean, but some in a lab in Columbia University, New York, have started grooming to an unusual and excessive degree....

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How a Pickpocket Cleans You Out

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

Master pickpocket Apollo Robbins demonstrates his skill on video.

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Who Owns Your Memories – You or Your iPhone?

Posted on December 19, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Who owns your memories? You’d think that would be you. But in a short interview with Claudia Dreifus at the New York Times, neuroethicist Matthew Liao not...

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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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