How anger creates a false feeling of power – and thus Trump
How was Trump able to harness so much anger, even though he had proposed no solutions and offered no way to build anything new? Martha Nussbaum offers that he c...
Tag: Psychology
Putin has Asperger’s? Pete Etchells says Now wait just a goddamned minute here
On Wednesday, USA Today ran a report about a US Naval College researcher’s conclusion that “movement pattern analysis” indicated that V...
The Art of Deception: When Kindness is a Lure to Betrayal
Over at NPR, Barbara King has a post about the mostly amusing deceptions that chimpanzee mothers sometimes engage in. It’s a nice post that includes an am...
Harvard’s Damning Report on Marc Hauser’s Fraud Charges
Ever since Marc Hauser’s 2011 resignation from Harvard amid findings of scientific misconduct, observers, critics, colleagues, and defenders have argued a...
Baby Blues, Sugar Grumps, Cannibal Writers, & Other Reading
T. Delene Beeland’s essay on post-baby depression is among of the best such I’ve read. I judged myself against other mothers. It seemed everyone cared fo...
Leonardo da Vinci and the Power of Ignorance
In his fine short Leonardo da Vinci: A Life, for Penguin’s Penguin Lives series, Sherwin Nuland wonders if there are times when good scientists or entire ...
Love Poems About Elephant Skin, Rhino Skin, Hippo Skin, and Snake Skin – For Science
I’ve been reading some of Harry Harlow’s papers, and am in wonder at his seminal “The Nature of Love,” his 1958 Presidential Lecture to ...
Novels Change Your Brain. So What?
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...
Whence Comes Anxiety? Scott Stossel Explains
Scott Stossel’s fine vivid account of his spectacular struggles with anxiety — an Atlantic article excerpted from his new book —carries, among other pleas...
Malcolm Gladwell Gets Gushy With Glenn Beck
I find this clip amazing and unsettling. I’ve not read David and Goliath, the book they discuss here. But according to reviews and Gladwell’s own de...