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The story first caught my attention in November . Now, in a humane and insightful piece, the NY Times magazine gives the incredible, philoso...

I. Earlier this year, I recommended Lawrence Rosenblum's See What I'm Saying , which explores the lesser-known aspects of sensatio...

If V.S. Ramachandran has a new book out, you can bet your sweet occipital lobe I'm going to link to Colin McGinn's review. Why is ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, riffing , once said that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. On a related note, NewScientist's H...

The mess in the apartment is contained and certified non-toxic. The mess on my hard drive, in my Google Docs, and in my Firefox bookmarks, ...

NewScientist has a recent article about a phenomenon related to the halo effect called "choice blindness." Rather than playing ...

Two and half years ago I linked to an article describing how scientists had learned how to create "déjà vu on demand." That kind...

Doodling isn't a distraction, it's a memory aid. Really : 40 members of the research panel of the Medical Research Council's Cog...

Your brain hates nothing so much as nothing, to the point that it will fill the nothing with anything just to have something there. Or some...

Emily Yoffe reports that neuroscience is catching on to something students of oratory have known for, oh, millennia: rhetoric sends people. ...

Every now and then, NewScientist publishes concurrent or even consecutive articles that, taken together, pose a dilemma unnoticed by the ed...

Carl Zimmer, in the running for America's best science popularizer, has moved his blog to Discover's website , since he's got a ...

In a brief NewScientist interview, Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist, describes the insight into her thinking a stroke in her left hemispher...

Surprising research suggests something to that effect : When Hayne's team later analysed the fMRI scans, they found that the prefrontal ...

Neuroscience and literary criticism meet, wonderfully and strangely, in this piece by Philip Davis . By developing and testing hypotheses o...

I'd say my experience as a teacher and coach confirms this. Feeling cranky after a bad night's sleep? Now there could be an explan...

What makes you happy? A kiss? A fuzzy blanket? A replacement Old Yeller? Deep-brain electric stimulation? [via Instapundit ]

"I can't see! I can't see!" Larry shouts. "Why's that?" Moe asks, alarmed. "I got my eyes closed!...

George Johnson visits the Magic of Consciousness conference in--where else?-- Las Vegas. Sounding more like a professor than a comedian and ...

Stuart Derbyshire, reviewing Chris Frith's Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates our Mental World , wants to rescue free will from n...