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Brains and Behavior/Politics

How anger creates a false feeling of power – and thus Trump

Posted on December 8, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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...

Brains and Behavior/Politics

Putin has Asperger’s? Pete Etchells says Now wait just a goddamned minute here

Posted on February 7, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  On Wednesday, USA Today ran a report about a US Naval College researcher’s conclusion that “movement pattern analysis” indicated that V...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Side Tracks/The Orchid & The Dandelion

The Art of Deception: When Kindness is a Lure to Betrayal

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

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...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/History of science

Harvard’s Damning Report on Marc Hauser’s Fraud Charges

Posted on June 10, 2014 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

Ever since Marc Hauser’s 2011 resignation from Harvard amid findings of scientific misconduct, observers, critics, colleagues, and defenders have argued a...

Anthropology/Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Genetics/Medicine/Readings/Side Tracks

Baby Blues, Sugar Grumps, Cannibal Writers, & Other Reading

Posted on May 21, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  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...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Writing

Leonardo da Vinci and the Power of Ignorance

Posted on March 4, 2014 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

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 ...

Biology/Books/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/History of science/Psychiatry/Readings

Love Poems About Elephant Skin, Rhino Skin, Hippo Skin, and Snake Skin – For Science

Posted on January 28, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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 ...

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...

Books/Brains and Behavior/Genetics/Medicine/Psychiatry/Readings

Whence Comes Anxiety? Scott Stossel Explains

Posted on January 5, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Scott Stossel’s fine vivid account of his spectacular struggles with anxiety — an Atlantic article excerpted from his new book —carries, among other pleas...

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

Malcolm Gladwell Gets Gushy With Glenn Beck

Posted on November 14, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

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...

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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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