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Doing the Work of Empathy: A Conversation with Marin Sardy

  • Julia Goldberg
  • May 17, 2019
Marin Sardy discusses her debut memoir, THE EDGE OF EVERY DAY: SKETCHES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA.
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The Algorithm of Love

  • Madhushree Ghosh
  • December 3, 2018
The life I had doesn’t flash like I see in movies. The life I want is what stares ahead.
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Word of the Day: Woofits

  • Sara Menuck
  • September 17, 2014
(n.); an unwell feeling, particularly in the head; a moody depression; c. 1918, from Nevil Shute’s The Rose and the Rainbow The archetype of the mad genius dates back to…
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Inside a Writer’s Head

  • P.E. Garcia
  • June 24, 2014
New research reveals how a creative writer’s brain functions while writing. As it turns out, it might not be so different from a basketball player’s brain. The New York Times…
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After the Fall

  • Matthew Fogarty
  • May 14, 2014
I've never been clear on the nature of the injury to the brain. Something so fragile, I like to think of it as shattering like glass.
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Is Neuroscience the Future of the Humanities?

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • May 15, 2013
As science and technology dominate our lives more and more each day, those of us in the humanities find ourselves increasingly on the defensive. One way to demonstrate the humanities’…
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The Freestyle Cortex

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • November 19, 2012
A sudden burst of improvisational creativity may feel almost supernatural in origin, but there’s a biological basis for it, say researchers. How did they study it? By scanning the brains…
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Brain Mapping

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 4, 2012
“Since the 19th century people have speculated that the essence of human identity is stored in the connections between our neurons. Today we have the technology to find out if…
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How Do We Think Other’s Thoughts?

  • Brian Spears
  • September 12, 2009
Rebecca Saxe at TED, on sensing other’s thoughts, and on changing moral judgments using magnetic pulses.
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