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The Limits of Science

29 August 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Mikkel Krenchel & Christian Madsbjerg Foreign Affairs If you’ve ever listened to a TED Talk or read a popular science book about human behavior, chances are good that you’ve heard fascinating […]

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How Your Brain Decides Blame and Punishment

13 October 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Amy Wolf Vanderbilt University Juries in criminal cases typically decide if someone is guilty, then a judge determines a suitable level of punishment. New research confirms that these two […]

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Could we Give Criminals Corrective Brain Implants?

11 September 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Zoltan Istvan Motherboard The death penalty is one of America’s most contentious issues. Critics complain that capital punishment is inhumane, pointing out how some executions have failed to quickly kill […]

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Poverty Shrinks Brains From Birth

6 April 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Sara Reardon Nature The stress of growing up poor can hurt a child’s brain development starting before birth, research suggests — and even very small differences in income can […]

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Next Up for Silicon Valley: Solving Death

6 March 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Betsy Isaacson Newsweek Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, plans to live to be 120. Compared with some other tech billionaires, he doesn’t seem particularly ambitious. Dmitry Itskov, […]

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Should Veterans With PTSD be Exempt From the Death Penalty?

2 February 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Iulia Filip The Atlantic On January 12, 1998, Andrew Brannan was driving his truck at 98 miles an hour on a country road near his Dublin, Georgia, home when […]

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A Quest to Map the Human Brain

16 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Gareth Cook The New York Times Magazine In 2005, Sebastian Seung suffered the academic equivalent of an existential crisis. More than a decade earlier, with a Ph.D. in theoretical […]

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