Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: "Everybody Lies"

7/31/17. Forward by Steven Pinker, Ph.D. We all lie when we examine big data, new data, and what the internet can tell us. A look a google searches reveals a view of human nature we cannot see.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gBViHUDYD0

In the Netherlands, the Doctor Will Kill You Now

7/24/27. Grab your coat and get your hat.


https://www.wsj.com/article_email/in-the-netherlands-the-doctor-will-kill-you-now-1500591571-lMyQjAxMTA3NzIwMjgyMzI2Wj/

Brawn in the Age of Brains

7/20/17. Victor Davis Hanson.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/brawn-age-brains-15256.html

On Being a Ghostwriter

6/28/18. Fortune without the fame.

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/fame-machine-ghostwriter-crofts/

On Microaggressions

6/27/17. Evidence?

https://aeon.co/essays/why-a-moratorium-on-microaggressions-policies-is-needed

Taking on the Scourge of Opiods

6/26/17. Psychiatrist Dr. Sally Satel describes the crisis of opioid addiction and offers some suggestions for treatment. Dr. Satel is an expert on drug addiction.

http://www.aei.org/spotlight/taking-on-the-scourge-of-opioids/

How Plasticity Can Help Kids

6/22/17. My colleague psychologist Eric Herman on how plasticity can help kids.

http://www.metroparent.com/metro-parent-magazine/m-parenting/m-tweens-teens/plasticity-can-help-teens/

Can Jonathan Haidt Calm the Culture Wars?

6/21/17. A social psychologist examines our culture wars.


http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Gadfly/240311?key=2ZIPoiHsy9X3ZNGVLN4YvrK9ZZs1KWhBz010O-PCftXT1KFIDXHagaaR3q7QmshNZUZBRDV0YzJXemFoekJiQTIyelFpYjBXRVhNdS0zeV9TZVMwbHJHUFo5dw

Yale Professor's Book on Death Best Seller in South Korea

6/14/17. Who knew?

https://qz.com/1002888/why-is-a-little-known-yale-professors-book-on-death-a-best-seller-in-south-korea/

Dylan's Unsayable Lecture

6/7/17. Here.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/06/bob-dylan-nobel-literature-lecture-moby-dick-explanation/529284/

Liberal Witch Hunts

5/31/17. Intolerance.

http://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/05/27/this-weeks-witch-hunt/

Dreams of My Father. How are We Treating the Mentally Ill?

5/3017. Has treatment for the mentally ill improved?

https://www.city-journal.org/html/dreams-my-uncle-15124.html

Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer

5/30/17. Final column.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/25/15686870/walt-mossberg-final-column-the-disappearing-computer

We Weren't Built to Live in the Moment

5/25/17. Be here then. You maybe always on my mind.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/sunday/why-the-future-is-always-on-your-mind.html?_r=0

Failure to Thrive: New York and the Severely Mentally Ill

5/17/17.  Help is not on the way.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/failure-thrive-15123.html

When Your Child is a Psychopath

5/17/17. When I worked at a child psychiatric hospital, we referred to these children and adolescents as "empty"  --- empty of a conscience, concern for others, and empathy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/when-your-child-is-a-psychopath/524502/?utm_source=feed

Nolan Finley: "Are We Ready to Pay for 'Free' Healthcare?"

5/15/17. As Steven Wright reminds us, you can't have everything. Where would you put it?


http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2017/05/13/finley-ready-pay-free-health-care/101658894/

Joseph Epstein: "How Cool was That?

5/15/17.  "Not especially, in retrospect."


http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/how-cool-was-that/article/2008016

MANTRA OF THE FRONTAL CORTEX

 

5/9/17. “That it makes you do the harder thing when that is the right thing.”

 

FROM: Robert Sapolsky.  "Behave. Humans at Our Best and Worst"

Mozart in the Machine

5/5/17. Thoughtful article on music and artificial intelligence.


https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-03/the-mozart-in-the-machine