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Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
Criminal lawyers, not surprisingly, are increasingly drawing on brain images supposedly showing a biological defect that “made” their clients commit murder.
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
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Sean MacMannis
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In the 1800s in the United States, enslaved people who escaped were proposed to be suffering from drapetomania—an insane compulsion to wander. More recently, the diagnosis of homosexuality as a mental illness was broadly accepted by many psychologists and psychiatrists. It was only by the DSM-III, published in 1980, that this was changed after a
... See morePaul Bloom • Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
Law enforcers from J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI to Detroit’s vociferous police investigator Herbert Case also supported the link between pornography, violence, delinquency, and sexual deviance. Pitrim Sorokin, a sociologist on the Harvard faculty and a future CDL member, wrote of the “moral decay” engendered by the saturation of society with sex and
... See moreWhitney Strub • Perversion for Profit
We are our own auditors.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Which brings us to the darker side of the ovulatory-shift hypothesis. So the thing that I haven’t yet told you about the effect of women’s fertility status on their preference for sexiness is that this preference shift is oftentimes most pronounced in women who already have partners. Women in relationships—especially women in relationships with men
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