It’s worth reading this piece on John Hunstman by Tom Chivers just for the brilliant football/evolution analogy

When Doctors Become Patients: moving story of a doctor who gets throat cancer

Razor-sharp: why worrying whether people like science or not is probably the wrong concern. By Alice Bell.

“It’s hard to overstate the influence of the marshmallow task.” 40+ years on and still important, says Jonah Lehrer.

I spend all my time blogging about papers. But here’s a paper about my blog!

How the war over dolphin rights sundered the friendship between two scientists. Great story by Erik Vance.

Freedom to Riot: On the Evolution of Collective Violence. Yet another tour de force post by Eric Michael Johnson.

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