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Jonah Lehrer and the trouble with facts
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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the go-to guy for elucidating the philosophical claims of cutting-edge science. Photograph: Colin Hattersley Is there a part of the brain Shatner's Bassoon, perhaps? that recognises irony? A week ago, Jonah Lehrer , the author of Proust Was A
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Aaron Sorkin's verbal tics and self-plagiarism's technical impossibility | Bob Garfield
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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if a character in The Newsroom says 'That was predictable', it was probably predictable he would do so...First, please read the following two sentences: 1) Among the things the free market is free of is conscience. New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer
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Jonah Lehrer Just Does Not Know How to Do Journalism [Media]
New York City :: NY :: USA | 11 months ago
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Yesterday we found out that Jonah Lehrer, the Gladwellesque whiz kid who's The New Yorker 's newest staff writer, reused his own old writings for every goddamn blog post he's written for The New Yorker so far...He is an even bigger time self-
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Summer readings to keep students busy
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 1 year ago
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Jay Garcia, Staff Writer May 15, 2012 Filed under Features 1...This elite club focuses on the exclusive relationships among our present day presidents and their back-room deals, rescue missions, secret alliances and enduring rivalries. You'll be
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Books of The Times: ‘Imagine: How Creativity Works,' by Jonah Lehrer
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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What makes the cartoon light bulb of creativity go off over someone's head? What is the catalyst for groundbreaking inventions and innovative breakthroughs? In his illuminating new book, the journalist Jonah Lehrer explicates some now classic case
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TBR: Inside the List
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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There was a time, three or four years ago, when it seemed every novelist had a blog, and why not? Blogging gave writers another way to reach readers, to promote their work or air their grievances or test their ideas in mini-essays that played to
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Jonah Lehrer: the prodigy who lights up the brain | profile
Oxford :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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Jonah Lehrer, whose 'writing is full of wondrous examples of brain and art colliding and collaborating'. Photograph: Thos Robinson/Getty Images There is a moment familiar to anyone who has ever frittered away innocent hours watching old cartoons. It
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