Posts Tagged ‘gangs’
What Neuroscience (and Cows) Tell us About the Government Shut-Down
The actions of congressmen and women in the government shutdown would not be possible without the neuroscience of human herding behavior and the loss of normal constraints on deviant behavior that this causes.
Read MoreOn Boylston Street
(First published on BrainFacts.org ) The last time I was on Boylston Street it was to give a lecture in November at a scientific meeting in the Weston Hotel. Today, Sunday, I’m looking out onto an empty street, barricaded. An eerie modern-day ghost town festooned with yellow police tape rippling in the cold Boston wind. …
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