"Die, Selfish Gene, Die." That's the title of a controversial new article by David Dobbs. In it, he argues that the &qu...
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Showing posts with label Hank. Show all posts
Consuming the Self: One Critique of 23andMe
Last week, the FDA sent a letter to Ann Wojcicki — the CEO of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing company 23andMe — ordering them to...
Steven Pinker's New Scientism
Yesterday, The New Republic published a big article by bestselling Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker . The title says it all: "Scien...
Rule 14-1B: "Science" and "Tradition" in Golf
Yesterday, the United States Golf Association (USGA) announced a rule change . Coming into effect in 2016, Rule 14-1B will prohibit the use ...
The High Quality Research Act and American Science
Yesterday, President Obama spoke at the National Academy of Sciences to mark its 150th anniversary. Alongside the usual issues, Obama took...
The Science of Structure and the Apologetics of Agency
What do Jonah Lehrer and Sheryl Sandberg have in common? I think it's productive to see their separate moments in the sun through a ...
A Short History of Neuro-Everything
Braaaaaaaaains are everywhere these days. In the wake of the big announcement about the Brain Activity Map (BAM) Project , publicity aroun...
A Novel History of Psychology
BOOK REVIEW: Vanessa L. Ryan, Thinking Without Thinking in the Victorian Novel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) ————————...
Advertising Psychology—or an Advertising Psychologist?
A funny thing happened during the Super Bowl. No, not that thing . Yes, the 34-minute power outage brought a lot of issues into focus—issues...
Up Goer Five and the Rhetoric of Science
Recently, the webcomic xkcd spurred some discussion with a description of the Saturn V rocket that managed to use only the thousand (or &qu...
Science and its #overlyhonestmethods
This week, a hashtag trended on Twitter that will be of particular interest to historians, sociologists, and other students of science: #ove...
Farish Jenkins and American Science (Pedagogy)
Farish A. Jenkins, Jr. – paleontologist, anatomist, curator, artist, professor, friend – died this past autumn at 72. Harvard's Departme...
Curation and Research in Art and Science
Chicago's Field Museum is making drastic cuts to basic research in order to meet a constrained budget. Lukas has argued that this shoul...
The Fall of Jonah Lehrer (Part 4 of 4)
This post concludes my four-part series on the cultural context of contemporary popular science writing. The preceding three parts are here...
The Fall of Jonah Lehrer (Part 3 of 4)
This is the third installment of a four-part series on the cultural context of contemporary popular science writing. Part I is here , Part I...
The Fall of Jonah Lehrer (Part 2 of 4)
This is the second installment of a four-part series on the cultural context of contemporary popular science writing. Part I is here , and P...
The Fall of Jonah Lehrer (Part 1 of 4)
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O [Jonah], thou wast slain in thine high places. 2 Samuel 1:25 (King James, adapte...
Next Week: PACHS Introductory Symposium
As many of you know, the Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) anchors an increasingly rich array of HPS offerings—ta...
Shotgunning, Inc.
More thoughts on beer technologies! These should go down just as smoothly as my post on canning craft beer (written up more fully here )....
A Craft Economy: Technology, Aesthetics, and Beer
Yesterday, I awoke to two announcements. First, Steve Shapin is giving a talk in England at the end of the month called " The Tastes of...
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