neuroscience

Those midterm questions: Decide carefully!
Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 1:02pm
I was reading Nietzsche in CC when I first came across the notion of "suspending belief." For Nietzsche, in "On the Genealogy of Morals," the concept of being able to perceive objective truth was laughable. He compared contemporary philosophers who wrote with such conviction to "false priests,"...
Master Mind
Wed, Mar 5, 2014, 11:43pm
Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel talks about the brain, the arts, and what they mean to him.
The neuroscience of coffee: part I
Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 4:19pm
This is the first in a three-part series entitled "The Neuroscience of Coffee." In the first part of this series, we'll look at the pharmacology of caffeine; in the second we'll examine the side effects of coffee, and we'll conclude with a surprise! According to legend, coffee...
Super Bowls give me my religious fill
Mon, Feb 3, 2014, 10:31pm
Watching Super "Doobie" Bowl 2014---named, in case you haven't heard, since both teams this year were from marijuana-positive states---was not the same experience, for many of us, as watching the Superbowl in 2012. During the 2012 Superbowl, I felt moved. I felt Manning's pain on the defensive-end...
Mapping the last frontier
Thu, Apr 11, 2013, 11:46pm
Obama's BRAIN Initiative should be supported, but tempered by reasonable expectations.
Panel talks future of neuroscience
Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:59pm
After a $200 million pledge from New York real estate mogul and New York Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman, faculty and administrators met to discuss the future of the Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
The art of science
Wed, Apr 20, 2011, 7:23pm
The right and left brain are not exclusive of each other.