Author Johann Hari: Look at the Signals
Attempting to understand human beings at the level of the brain can prevent us from understanding the people whom those brains belong to.
Alcohol Consumption: A Leading Cause of Preventable Death
The impact of alcohol on global health is hard to encapsulate. In Never Enough: The Neuroscience of Addiction, author and neuroscientist Judith Grisel does her best to highlight the deadly consequences of excessive alcohol consumption.
Relationship Advice from Jerry Seinfeld’s Is This Anything?
Spanning five decades, Seinfeld’s Is This Anything? covers everything from bumper cars and cotton balls to Facebook and COVID-19.
Dr Joanna Moncrieff: The Vast Majority of People Who Take Psychiatric Drugs Derive Little or No Benefit From Them
Whilst promoting a new edition of A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs, Dr Joanna Moncrieff summarised her stance on psychiatric drugs.
Physicist Sean Carroll On ‘The Mistake We Make’
In The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, physicist Sean Carroll reminds readers of a mistake we’re all prone to making.
Science Fiction Author Robert Heinlein On Happiness
In the sci-fi novel, Starship Troopers, author Robert Heinlein shares his secret to a happy life.
Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld on Addiction: Quitting is the Rule, Not the Exception
Psychiatrist Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld offer hope to those struggling to overcome a dependence on drugs in their book, Brainwashed.
10 Wise Aphorisms from The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms is chock full of wise words. Here are ten of my favourite aphorisms from the book.
Behavioural Geneticist Robert Plomin: ‘There Are No Disorders, There Are Just Quantitative Dimensions’ (Extended)
Behavioural Geneticist Robert Plomin recently spoke with author Sam Harris on the Making Sense Podcast (Episode 211 – The Nature of Human Nature).