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Category Archives: Science
Anxiety & Consciousness
Louis Menand reviews Scott Stossel’s book My Age of Anxiety: “To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible … Continue reading
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Max Tegmark: Mathematical Reality of Reality
A physicist (with a cool name) provides an update on ideas proposed some years ago by Eugene Wigner in “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences“: Max Tegmark has a theory about reality. According to Max, who is … Continue reading
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Residents of Poorer Nations Find Greater Meaning in Life
Science Daily reports on findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science: Dec. 18, 2013 — While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater life satisfaction, new research shows that those living in poorer … Continue reading
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Neanderthal Burials Confirmed as Ancient Ritual
What’s interesting about this archaeological determination is that, going this far back, our ancestors appear to have been cognizant of the concept of immanent mortality for all (aka death) and possibly also the conceptual construct of ‘post-death’ (aka an after-life.) … Continue reading
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23andMe
In a City Journal article on “Who Owns the Code of Life?“, Peter Huber mentions the following novel bit of organic, bottom-up, Hayekian knowledge formation. The power of individuals, freely associated, never cease to amaze: Last year, 23andMe, a company … Continue reading
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Primo Levi
In The Nation, Vivian Gornick has an exceptionally well written review of Berel Lang’s book Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life. Gornick argues convincing that Primo Levi’s suicide in 1987 was not a direct result, per se, of his … Continue reading
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Ancient Memories
New research findings from the radical world of epigenetics: Lab mice trained to fear a particular smell can transfer the impulse to their unborn sons and grandsons through a mechanism in their sperm, a study reveals. The research claims to … Continue reading
The Slow Death of Social Capital
In 2007, liberal social theorist Robert Putnam made a discovery so startling that he sat on his research for an unusually long time, thinking he must have overlooked some mitigating factor he had not yet considered. But, alas, the evidence … Continue reading
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Are Millennials Turning Their Backs on the American Dream?
In “Are Millennials Turning Their Backs on the American Dream?”, Joel Kotkin discusses “the perception of a majority of middle class Americans that their children will not do better than them, with as many as pessimistic about the future as … Continue reading
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Which Professions Have The Most Psychopaths?
Here’s the definition of psychopathy via the always-reliable Wikipedia: Psychopathy is a personality disorder that has been variously described as characterized by shallow emotions (in particular reduced fear), stress tolerance, lacking empathy, coldheartedness, lacking guilt, egocentricity, superficial character, manipulativeness, irresponsibility, … Continue reading
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