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Why Governor Nixon has to remove prosecutor from Michael Brown Case
The Buzz Westfall Justice Center, where on August 20th, St.…

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 [...]
Manipulating Memory through Optogenetics: A Conversation with Neuroscientists Xu Liu and Steve Ramirez
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ver the past few years, MIT neuroscientists…

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

Q&A with Nicholas Epley Part 2: Ourselves & Our Technology
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his is part 2 of our conversation with Psychologist…


