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Category: science

  • Barack to the Future

    “We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel…

  • Book Review: This is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel J. Levitin

    Before I begin, let me just say right off that I enjoyed reading this book a whole lot and I heartily recommend it. The following harsh criticism is partly because I care enough to wish it was just a bit better, and partly because its subject matter falls in my own area of expertise (psychology),…

  • Heroes

    I think all of us have extraordinary mental powers in certain limited conditions. One of mine is the ability to remember which CDs in my collection are missing out of their cases. I realized this when I came across a pile of CDs, and was incredibly happy that I could go through this mental list…