OSBR #52: Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
The first half of this book will help you understand how the illusion that your conscious brain is the seat of decision-making actually works; the second half of this book […]
The first half of this book will help you understand how the illusion that your conscious brain is the seat of decision-making actually works; the second half of this book […]
After a fascinating overview of quantum theory and split-brain studies, Gazzaniga slides into a series of conclusions, many of which are unsupported or even disproved by the same research he […]
I should have known by the subtitle that whatever information I got from this book would be buried in a multitude of tone-deaf (and sometimes conflicting) analogies written in an […]
As Wolf piled unsupportable assertions on top of interesting facts, I wished she’d been better able to discern the difference between her feelings and, well, science.
The only thing “unlocked” in this book that combines basic cancer information with a bland re-telling of his ex-wife’s cancer journey is my curiosity about why she divorced him.
The story of a white Seattleite who took it upon himself to record every piece of American Indian tradition (including over 40,000 photographs, 10,000 songs, language guides and ceremonies) that […]
With vivid descriptions that had me reading sentences out loud, Fonseca’s anthropologically-activist book situates itself in particularly violent, post-Soviet period to explore the culture and history of the Romani people […]
I loved the Part I of this book, in which Serano builds a passionate and cogent theory of transexuality, the feminine, sexism and cis-sexism via an academic review of the […]
If hospitals gathered and made public data on things like infection rates, accidents, and whether nurses think that there is a spirit of teamwork, most of us would refuse to […]
The hell with “freedom fries” – if I ever get pregnant, I’m moving to France, where people are reasonable.