This is Your Brain on Poverty
By Karen Weese Pacific Standard Dr. Bryan Bledsoe was just trying to keep up. The emergency room at his small county hospital was always packed and the top brass had […]
Tag Archives: Neuroscience
The Psychopaths Among Us
By Danielle Egan Discover Robert Hare steps out of the sunlight and into a West Vancouver pub. “Let me see your eyes,” says the 82-year old, piercing me with a […]
The Limits of Science
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 […]
Debate: What Neuroscience Has to Say About Free Will
By Adam Bear Scientific American In a classic paper published almost 20 years ago, the psychologists Dan Wegner and Thalia Wheatley made a revolutionary proposal: The experience of intentionally willing […]
Do We Have Free Will? Do We Need It?
By Stephen Cave The Atlantic For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing […]
Super-Intelligent Humans are Coming
By Stephen Hsu Nautilus In Daniel Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon, a mentally challenged adult called Charlie Gordon receives an experimental treatment to raise his IQ from 60 to somewhere […]
The “Just Following Orders” Defense and the Brain
By Joshua Barajas PBS Newshour In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were “forced to serve as […]
