May 27 – 31, 2013 Heather’s last post is a case-in-point for why we’re going to miss her so much. It’s something you’ve never heard of before, told expertly and with great empathy: India’s great population explosion is being calmed by — who knew? — soap operas. Come back soon, Heather, and tell us another […]
Miscellaneous
I used to think M.T. Anderson was prescient. Now I’m convinced he’s psychic. Anderson is the author of the young-adult novel Feed, a very funny — and deeply disturbing — book about the seductive power of social media. In the world of the novel, the fortunate have a “feed” implanted in their brains at birth, […]
It’s early morning in a Mumbai train station. The video is grainy, but you can clearly make out a dense swarm of humanity along the platform. By my count, the crowd stands at least ten or twelve people deep, males for the most part, many dressed in light short-sleeved shirts, the kind you’d wear in […]
May 20 – 24 Paleo-BS or solid science? This week, Cassie investigated the new obsession with intermittent fasting. Cameron examined the void that lurks on the far side of achievement. Christie revealed some of the most surprising and least expected effects of guns. Heather told us how experimental archaeology is helping answer the question of […]
“Did they ever meet?” I got the question all the time. People would ask what I was working on, and I would say a book about Einstein and Freud, and then would come the question. Same thing with my next book. People would ask what I was working on, and I would say a book […]
May 13 to 17 It’s spring! Except in London, where for the past two months, the weather has been stuck in a kind of sodden cold amalgam between spring and winter that’s probably best described as splinter. But back to spring. Among many other eye openers you’ll learn in Ann’s post, men’s reproductive hormones peak […]
For the last five years, I’ve been letting psychology graduate students experiment on my children. That, of course, sounds much worse than the reality that I take them to participate in experiments at the University of Colorado lab that probes early language development in toddlers. Still, I have a lingering unease when it comes to […]
May 6 – 10 This week, LWON spawn Virginia Hughes returns to the mothership to ask: Isn’t it a waste to spend precious years of our waking lives in service to death? People with discipline are more satisfied with less, says Jessa. People with self-control deficiencies want more. Christie considers the difference between a study […]
