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George Johnson (
The Cancer Chronicles
,
Raw Data
) and John Horgan (
Stevens Center for Science Writings
,
Cross-Check
)
Neurotheology’s varieties of religious experience
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04:06
A psychopharmacological epidemic of mysticism?
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12:38
The mirror-neuron edifice’s shaky foundations
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27:04
Why the long dry spell for neuroscience?
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36:53
Um, about that newly “discovered” Earthlike planet
.
43:00
Thomas Kuhn: fascinating, paradoxical and tragic
.
49:56
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Jane Mayer’s New Yorker article on 24 and torture
George on neurotheology
John on mystical technologies
Time article on contemporary research into hallucinogens
A picture of George
John on peyote’s therapeutic effects
Alison Gopnik on the mirror neuron myth
John on “Bill Clinton cells”
Meghan O’Rourke on neuroplasticity mania
The Economist on the discovery/inference of a new planet
John’s profile of Thomas Kuhn
Keay Davidson’s forthcoming Thomas Kuhn biography
The BBC announces the discovery of Kryptonite
Corn-Pinkerton on new planet
Bob Wright’s NYT riff on newly discovered planet
Science Saturday | Apr 27, 2007 | George Johnson & John Horgan
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