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Ruth had stopped doubting herself the morning she saw Joe do a jigsaw puzzle upside down.  For some time, she had been nagged by a feelin...

I talked to curious students about the Brain at BiobBase yesterday and took a really amazing tour through a 3-D brain in a planetarium...

This originally appeared here but I now post it below. When I heard that the opening event of Brain Awareness Week this year was on ...

I recently co-created a neuroscience lesson for TED-Ed.  It just went live.  Check us out!

Nowadays, the outcome of every scientific study is expected to be instantly useable by the public.  News media demands ready-made dietary ...

Now nearly 80, neurologist, writer, and keeper of the cabinet of human curiosities - Oliver Sacks - has written his 12th book.  This one i...

There is a good critique on how the popular press hypes social science research in The American Scholar : The Allure of the Counterintuitiv...

There has been a bevy of books examining wider aspects of culture as they intersect with brain science written by scientists in the past y...

I covered neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga's talk on the brain and free will at Cooper Union for Capital New York, hence the resounding ...

I have always enjoyed Oliver Sacks's vivid, humane portraits. He is a doctor/author who has always managed to write about people instea...

Given that classes have started up and the books I'm reading are all on the large side, I haven't finished anything this week, but I...

Russian neuropsychologist A. R. Luria's books might be considered the prototype for Oliver Sacks's. Sacks is a neurologist rather t...

I continue to dip into Richard Dawkins's impressive and diverse collection of science writing, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writ...

The two books I just finished share a theme. Both address the mechanisms and consequences of decision making and both use card playing as ...

I find myself with so much reading and writing for work (and such a desire to be out and moving when I'm not working) that I'm ge...

I haven't actually read Nicholas Carr's new book yet - The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains , but as far as I hav...

You may have heard that dolphins are the most intelligent species in the animal kingdom (aside from us brilliant creatures). They may be cu...

Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene is a readable account of how the reading brain works, as well as how it doesn't.  Given th...

I just came across two excerpts in Richard Dawkins's collection of science writing that reminded me what gives me pleasure about re...

I was introduced today to the website Big Think . On it I discovered, among many treasures, this interview with philosopher Daniel Dennett ...