Results for “The Tell-Tale Brain”

new line of mice with a special accessory: an upgraded memory and learning system. When these new and improved mice ran through an IQ test, they outperformed normal mice. Tsien pulled off an extraordinary engineering trick, creating a lineage of smarter mice. This is cowboy scie...

Even the bright red line for human manipulation of human beings shows many signs of moving or breaking completely. More than 2,300 approved clinical trials for gene therapy are in progress worldwide. A major medical goal is the treatment or prevention of cognitive decline, especi...

socially disadvantaged households, but they lag behind (and never catch up) in cognitive development even after controlling for family income. Gorillas can crawl after 2 months, and build their own nests after 2.5 years. They leave their mothers at 3-4 years. Human children are...

…Had to Know’ of Fraud. New York Times, February, 1-3; J. Creswell & L. Thomas, New York Times, 1/24/2009 * Stimulating the brain: Berridge, K. C. (2009). Wanting and liking: Observations from the Neuroscience and Psychology Laboratory. Jnquiry, 52(4), 378-398; Kringelbach, M., &...

… simulated with a suitably constructed random process and all of our random number generators are deterministic. This theoretical blind alley is reminiscent of the decades lost partialing out causal attributes of nature versus nurture before knowledge of dynamical influences on...

…), 113-126; Moller, A.C, & Deci, E.L. (2009). Interpersonal control, dehumanization, and violence: A self-determination theory perspective. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 13(1), 41-53; Viki, G T, Zimmerman, A, & Ballantyne, N. (2010). Dehumanization and attitudes towards...

Inferring Minds Where None Can Be Seen The social brain seeks connections with others. But what is the foundation that we use to build such connections? We experience empathy as a form of emotional resonance and understanding of other people. This connection allows us to comfort...

each is laid out in clinical, lurid, and near-identical detail. A cold Epstein demands that these allegedly unwitting juveniles (though they have come here for this very purpose) perform repulsive (or at least repulsively described) acts on him and then they return again. (Althou...

Here’s the narrative: the shadowy rich man, friend of the louche and disgraced President, at all times surrounded by a retinue of gorgeous retainers doing his bidding, is now found to have gathered a network of wrong-side-of-the-tracks Palm Beach girls to provide him with weird s...

the biblical tale of Salome and King Herod which explores the destructive use of

the author relates the tale of a man with visual

Lenny had told a fantasy tale about Eleanor Roosevelt

…d out what may be as much as $20 million, he yet seems somehow to have gotten away with it—that worst sin of all. He is the unrepentant catch all of up-to-the-minute badness: the financier whose wealth is a product of Wall Street math rather than work; a rich middle-age white man...

interview the girl who then supplies names of other girls. Some of whom are younger than 18. In the end, the police track down 18 girls—nine who are under 18; the others in their 20s and 30s; one woman is in her 60s—a number of whom give statements describing scenarios not terri...

…IMILARLY VALUABLE” PERSONAL BENEFIT FOR INSIDER TRADING LIABILITY FOR TIPPING FAMILY AND FRIENDS BY SAMUEL J. LIEBERMAN The U.S. Supreme Court gave the government a major victory in Salman v. U.S., 1 which lowers the standard for proving insider trading involving tipping family o...