Alcoholism
AlcoholismBrendan Koerner has a really fantastic article in the latest Wired on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It's a fascinating exploration of the organization, from its hallucinogen inspired birth (Bill...
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LSDThere's a fascinating article in the latest Vanity Fair (not online) about the prevalence of LSD (aka lysergic acid diethylamide) among movie stars in 1950s Hollywood: Aldous Huxley was one of the...
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Soda
SodaThere's been lots of chatter about Pepsi lately, so I thought I'd run with the theme. I don't have much to add to the media commentary - I'm just sad to see some of my favorite bloggers leave this...
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Cages and Cancer
Cages and CancerThere's an absolutely fascinating new paper by scientists at Ohio State University in the latest Cell. In short, the paper demonstrates that mice living in an enriched environments -...
View ArticleWill I?
Will I?We can't help but talk to ourselves. At any given moment, there's a running commentary unfolding in our stream of consciousness, an incessant soliloquy of observations, questions and opinions....
View ArticlePolitical Dissonance
Political DissonanceJoe Keohane has a fascinating summary of our political biases in the Boston Globe Ideas section this weekend. It's probably not surprising that voters aren't rational agents, but...
View ArticleSmart Babies
Smart BabiesOver at Sciam's Mind Matters, Melody Dye has a great post on the surprising advantages of thinking like a baby. At first glance, this might seem like a ridiculous conjecture: A baby, after...
View ArticleStress
StressI've got a new article in the latest Wired on the science of stress, as seen through the prism of Robert Sapolsky. The article isn't online yet (read it on the iPad!), but here are the opening...
View ArticleTwitter Strangers
Twitter StrangersOver at Gizmodo, Joel Johnson makes a convincing argument for adding random strangers to your twitter feed:I realized most of my Twitter friends are like me: white dorks. So I picked...
View ArticleGoodbye Scienceblogs
Goodbye ScienceblogsNOTE: This blog has moved. The Frontal Cortex is now over here.I've got some exciting news: Starting today, the Frontal Cortex will be moving over to the Wired website. Needless to...
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