When It’s Brains, It Pours ($$$$$): Obama’s Big (Neuro) Science Project
April 3rd, 2013 |
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It was an anti-climax: the President of the United States clocking in after The New York Times had already spilled the beans about his big brain program, a centerpiece of the administration’s second-term, legacy-making efforts in the science arena. After the Times article, everyone had, for weeks, written, speculated, chewed over and made preparations for [...]
Keep reading »Gun Control: Searching Down Under for Change to Believe In
December 20th, 2012 |
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Barack Obama talked on Sunday night about how the children who died in Newtown could have been from Anytown America. His words hit a resonant chord. Both of the given names of my two kids—Benjamin and Madeleine—were mentioned among the list of the dead children. “Madeleine,” spelled the same way as my daughter’s name, not [...]
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