Book Review: The Spike
Recently I asked one of my faculty advisors if he would ever write a popular science book. He’s a bestselling author in his own right, having written a textbook that…
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Brain Books
Book Review: Neuroscience Fiction
Over 50 years ago, large masses of movie enthusiasts flocked to the premiere of a much awaited sci-fi masterpiece called ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. The plot was rather simple. A…
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Book Review and Author Interview: The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman
A full interview with Donald Hoffman follows this book review
Does the moon still exist when you’re not looking at it? In a provocative new book titled The Case Against…
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Book Review: Remembering
In the early 20th century, Cambridge psychologist Frederic Bartlett radically reformulated the concept of memory. Until then the classical view, the earliest form of which could be traced back to…
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Book Review: Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
Around the world, all populations of humans are essentially the same. The differences that make us who we are lie in differences among individuals, which result from only 0.1% of…
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The Strange Order of Things: Book Review
ow do emotions construct human culture? Is culture uniquely human at all?
Hard questions, but some tackled nonetheless by renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio in his latest book, The Strange…
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Book Review: Life 3.0
n August 2, 2014, Elon Musk (@elonmusk) tweeted, “We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.” Yet, in the cultural ambience of Hollywood blockbusters, can…
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Book Review: The Perpetual Now
en years ago, in December 2007, an artist named Lonnie Sue Johnson lost her short term memory. She was admitted to the emergency room in the midst of a blizzard…
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Book Review: Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
n a recent family trip, I persuaded my dad to continue on from Grand Teton to Yellowstone National Park. Time was short before driving back to our lodging in Idaho.…
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, A Review
Responding to the assertion that computers lack intuition, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett once (counter-intuitively) argued that computers must have intuition. Ask a computer to calculate the square…
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head is Really Up To, A Review
Your brain is the most remarkable thing about you because it makes you you. So, when Dean Burnett, Ph.D. chose to describe all that the brain does to make you…
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Connecting to our Social Selves
Dear Skin,
I would like to express my upmost gratitude for the vast amount of receptors you possess. Among my favorites – the practical ones that allow me to find…
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