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Human Nature:
posted by William Saletan
on February 9, 2010
The Tablet Computer In Your Head
The patients couldn't produce physical activity, as you or I would. But they could produce mental activity. They could use the brain as a kind of tablet, writing "tennis" on their supplementary motor area or "navigation" on their parahippocampal gyrus. That's the real genius of the European study: The mind can use the brain as a communication device. Read More
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Brow Beat:
posted by John Swansburg
on February 8, 2010
The How I Met Your Mother Shame Index: Episode 15
The Shame Index admits he was too lazy to get up from the couch on Sunday night to fetch his phone and dial (877) 987-6401. Surely an account of what awaited callers would show up on the Web in due course. Sure enough, it did . Still, in the spirit of doing his own reporting, the Index decided to Read More
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The XX Factor:
posted by Emily Yoffe
on February 8, 2010
Baby Brees
Kerry ,
I watched the Super Bowl with my husband, 14-year-old daughter, and a
friend of hers, and we were all discouraged by what you identify as the
truly nasty tone toward women that ran through the ads (and let’s not
mention the explicitly porn style of the Go Daddy ads which had the
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Kausfiles:
posted by Mickey Kaus
on February 8, 2010
How to Write A Piece On How to Save the President
"[M]any of the nation's top news anchors and editors are sending emails back and forth (I have been sent three such emails in confidence) on what a spot-on piece Luce wrought ..." Read More