Sometimes Giving a Person a Choice is an Act of Terrible Cruelty
By Lisa Tessman Aeon It is not always good to have the opportunity to make a choice. When we must decide to take one action rather than another, we also, […]
Category Archives: LAW
Hope or Hype? Neuroscience & Criminal Law
By Stephen J. Morse The Neuroethics Blog The discovery of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 1991, which permits non-invasive imaging of brain function, and the wide availability of scanners for research […]
The Age of Artificial Immortality
By James Vlahos Wired It’s 1982, and I’m 11 years old, sitting at a Commodore PET computer terminal in the atrium of a science museum near my house. Whenever I come […]
Defending Kevin Davis’s “The Brain Defense”
By Andreas Kuersten TheThresh.com The drafting of a book is an intense undertaking, requiring a significant devotion of time and effort. Accordingly, book reviewers have an obligation to apply themselves […]
The Cow Cops
By Tay Wiles High Country News In the early days of ranching in the West, few laws existed, and those that did were hard to enforce. Beginning in 1873, county […]
Knowledge is a Community Effort
By Gareth Cook Scientific American “The Thinker,” Auguste Rodin’s bronze sculpture, has become a visual cliché, a common representation of deep thought — a figure, gazing down, chin on hand, […]
Why Your Brain Hates Other People
By Richard Sapolsky Nautilus It’s been said, “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.” […]
