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Schadenfreude in Gaza
Israeli soldiers and Palestinian women meet in the street at…

The Rejected Student Who Didn't Complain
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Photo: Petr Dosek
am an enormous fan of the Milkman, Akinola…

Head of White House “Nudge Unit” Maya Shankar Speaks about Newly Formed Social and Behavioral Sciences Team
Last summer, the news broke that the White House was in the process of setting up its own “Nudge Unit,” modeled after the UK’s version, officially called the Behavioral Insights Team (BIT). Public reaction to the news was a mix between hopeful anticipation on the one hand and big-government alarmism on the other [...]

NIH Requests $4.5 Billion For White House BRAIN Initiative
Photo: NIH Clinical Research Center in Bethesda, MD
hen President…
Manipulating Memory through Optogenetics: A Conversation with Neuroscientists Xu Liu and Steve Ramirez
Image Credit: Betty Lee
ver the past few years, MIT neuroscientists…

Reading Bee-tween the Lines: BeeLine Reader and Spritz Raise Research Questions
Photo: George Hodan
Inspired by psychology research in perception,…


