???When I finished, they looked crestfallen,??? he said, adding that they seemed to be asking, ???No secret sauce? No magic program to make us go from print to digital? Anyone can do what you???re talking about.???

Except few have.

Gazzaniga makes this interesting claim: Just as you cannot explain traffic patterns by studying car parts, neuroscience must abandon its tendency to reduce macro-level phenomena like free will to micro-level explanations. Along the way he provides fascinating and understandable information from brain evolution to studies involving infants and patients with severed brain hemispheres (split-brain patients). The final chapters of the book consider neuroscience as it implicates social responsibility, justice and how we treat criminal offense.

Empowered individuals were prone to cheating, say Lammers and Galinsky, yet they were also harsher in their condemnation of immoral acts than were people primed to feel powerless. And they were hypocritical, judging such acts to be less blameworthy if carried out by themselves than by others ( Psychological Science, vol 21, p 737).

Poets, priests & politicians. Captains of industry too. Regret the NS article is registration & eventually subscription only, but this was too good to miss.

This means the drop-down remains accessible, while providing a much better experience in modern browsers ??? handling typos, multiple spelling sequences, synonyms and prioritization.

And most importantly, “NZ” selects New Zealand (and Tanzania). Via @gnat