Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Archived Posts (Week of May 21, 2012)

Franzen's graduation speech
a counter-intuitive theory of anxiety
What the Chinese Want
traveling and creativity
on presentations and representations
the narcissism of small (horticultural) differences
how to open a new book
focus on wandering
making the right mistakes
Coco at Dartmouth
modified mirror therapy for arthritis
the manic defense
are dreams just rehearsal for life?
the voice
In God We Sext
on self
take a step back
(sex) object recognition
universal structure?
culturally-shaped psychosis
Detroit: part 2
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Archived Posts (Week of May 14, 2012)

disorder vs. phobia
over-diagnosis
remembering the future
forgetting the past
a human-powered gym
constructing sexual mores
social jet lag
ideology-based projection
re-gifting and human relationships
the narrative instinct: a counterpoint
a PTSD gene?
psychopathy in children
empathy: a double standard?
college, what it is good for
the bamboo ceiling
a second language and rationality
on Girls
Simic on poetry
on benzos
good noise
Florida on Detroit
a "long" article, so to speak
meet the killers
to sleep, to sleep
perchance to dream
The lowdown on HDL
too positive: a death-knell for psychological research?
Phineas Gage: A Connectomic Perspective
on yawning
bad news for 5-HT7
wearing black
the neuroscience of effort
distracted from pain
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Archived Posts (May 1st to May 12th of 2012)

the powers of observation
relative happiness
talking fish
Hollywood lies
art appreciation, in the buff
Ideas for ideas 
exposure, in private
on scientific understanding 
Relative Depressive Disorder 
religion and compassion 
Internet dating, in China 
The neuroscience of war (and peace)
sleepiness and creativity
social network pressure
The T in PTSD
DSM-V, warts and all
pursuasion: the article and the paper
dissidence and exile
little anxieties 
on pediatric bipolar disorder 
Please don't go.  We'll eat you up.  We love you so.
the power of distance 
drugs and the meaning of life
experience-taking
talking about ourselves
the secrets of pronouns
the social jet-lag
the physics of that coffee spill
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Archived Posts (April 2012)

three articles by Jonah Lehrer
refuting post-traumatic growth
n of 1, or the problem with neuroscience
the different forms of attention
stimulant dependence
enclothed cognition
the myth of the suffering artist
Vonnegut on writing
the meaning of life
politics and projection
a prison in the skies
antisocial urbanism
suffering from too much happiness
celebrity neurons: so where are the paparazzi?
Kandel interview:
origin stories
the decision quicksand with paper
the brain commune 
facebook and jealousy 
how we see movies 
language speed and content 
the science of walking
improving eyewitness testimony 
reading between the panels
indistinguishable from magic: David Blaine 
far-fetched but interesting
when we were young
the mean drunk 
symmetry and interracial marriages 
the plight of psychoanalysis
predicting crimes
choosing to choose
lie detector detective
fluid intelligence leaks
relieving pain 
understanding anxiety
fungi and existential fears
treating depression
on the origins of the arts
crazy therapists
the oxytocin receptor
the touch
video games to treat mental illness (paper)
believing beliefs
drugs and creativity
a neuroscience-informed drug policy?
buy the most memorable experience that takes the least time
being wrong the right way
modern day Phineas Gage?
reality training for schizophrenics
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Archived Posts (March 2012)

the evolution of a joke
ten quotes from Marquez
on music and the perception of mood
apologies to appoggiaturas
LSD for alcoholism
too many madeleines
Frankl and The Walking Dead
the licensing effect:
I, Robot Therapist
Great American Losers
the real ending:
I think I had an experience like this in college
the war virus
the influence of sound on taste
the desolate splendour of decay
the wonders of wondering
all it takes is imagination
Auden on Freud
On Whit
Franzen: The Paris Review Interview
country music and the five-factor model
private noise
Jack's list
synonym for thesaurus
the writing cure
dying words
do we need stories?
on Trayvon: articles 1, 2, and 3
The Love Competition
cultivating ignorance
all about empathic accuracy vs. perceived empathic effort
digital hoarders
Perception and Performance
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Archived Posts (February 2012):

levels of consciousness
the science of walking
medicating grief
living alone
consciously unconscious
Charlie Kaufman was right
two (possible) answers and a question
the mismatch with online dating
literary kisses
the romantic illusion
should Batman kill The Joker?
on silence and silent movies
distracted from distraction by distraction
what we should be saying to each other
writing in bed
get drunk, sleep less, and become smarter?
touring Broadmoor
understanding facial expressions
moral outrage vs. evidence
How to Get into Harvard
Lehrer on Lin
the limits of neuroscience:
the selfishness behind altruism
the effect of language on economic behavior
deconstructing ethics, one chicken at at time
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Archived Posts (January 2012):

go west, young man
not all science is created equal
what atheism is not
your mother
diagnoses and culture
concussions and high-school football
WWSD (What Would Steinbeck Do)
immigration psychosis (the paper)
Homeland and bipolar
an ode to Maslow
unconscious and creativity
windows of reconsolidation
ten reasons not to sleep with a poet
rules for artists
autism: a love story
how to study
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