Jonah Lehrer
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Once a Plagiarist
Jonah Lehrer, who admitted to plagiarism and fabrication in his 2012 book Imagine: How Creativity Works, has a new book out. It seems that once accused of plagiarism, though, those charges are hard to dodge: According to Daniel Engber, Lehrer’s new…
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The Lehrer Affair
If Jonah Lehrer ever writes a book about irrationality, it would be hard to imagine a better case study than his own. Like the best of his stories, it’s surprising, instructive, and deeply ironic.
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Creative Fuel
I’ve never been much of a drugs guy. My friends told me I got mean when I smoked, and anything harder made the next day feel so much worse than being on the drugs had felt good the day before.…
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Frontal Cortex
This week The New Yorker launched a new science blog called Frontal Cortex, by Jonah Lehrer. (Did you catch our interview with him?) The inaugural post touts the virtues of day-dreaming.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonah Lehrer
If you listened to Radiolab or read the New Yorker in the last three years, you’ve probably encountered the science journalist Jonah Lehrer.
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“The pulp of 2010”
Jonah Lehrer laments a big problem with the social web: “The one shared feature that I’m most interested in is also a little disturbing: the tendency of the social software to quantify our social life. Facebook doesn’t just let us…