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neurobiology of trust

nickyskye — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:25:38 -0800

As the market plummets, it might be interesting to look at the neurological background in the breakdown of trust. The author, Jonah Lehrer, is a young brainiac writer for Seed and the excellent Frontal Cortex. l Scientists immediately discovered a strong neural signal that drove many of the investment decisions. The signal was fictive learning. l One way to think of the financial markets right now is that instead of being populated by rational agents, they're full of people with borderline personality disorder. The Neurobiology of Trust Recent articles in Seed by Jonah Lehrer. Previously (wonderful post about Jonah Lehrer's first book, Proust Was a Neuroscientist). Previous references to Frontal Cortex: 1, 2, 3.

Just sing out a Te Deum when you see that ICBM

griphus — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:40:17 -0800

Expanding on a previous post about Tom Lehrer, and in what is becoming a grand tradition of single link YouTube posts about him, 6funswede and YouTube present the entirety of An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer.

Proust, Cezanne, Sacks, and Umami - Lehrer's World

digaman — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:16:46 -0800

Jonah Lehrer is becoming one of the most interesting science writers around. The 26-year-old Rhodes scholar and former Le Bernardin cook just published his first book, Proust Was a Neuroscientist [first chapter excerpt - NYT], an investigation of the ways poets, novelists, and artists accurately modeled the brain and memory before science did. This week he hilariously reenacted Escoffier's distillation of umami-rich veal stock [hit the audio link] with NPR's Robert Krulwich of Radio Lab. He also just published a very insightful profile of Oliver Sacks in SEED (addressing the pioneering neurologist's own recent struggles with an eye ailment) and writes a wide-ranging science blog. A new writer to watch.

What makes a hat into hate?

eriko — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:37:29 -0800

That's Mathematics! Warning, contains bad camera work, worse editing, a rather complicated homework problem, a few mathematical in-jokes, illegible chalkboard writing, and a 13 minute performance by Tom Lehrer.

Licenced to.........sing???

bap98189 — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:01:43 -0800

Fitness to Practice is a collection of songs written and performed by Amateur Transplants, two practicing doctors from the UK. The album consists of original songs as well as witty parodies of songs originally performed by among others Tom Lehrer and The Jam (mp3 links). The lyrics contain a lot of medical in-jokes, but the humour is broad enough to appeal to everyone.