Archive for August, 2006

Mind Reading

The new science of decision making. It’s not as rational as you think
By Jerry Adler | Newsweek
July 5 issue - Flat on my back, my eyes shrouded with LED goggles and my ears encased in headphones, I was trundled into the maw of an fMRI machine in a basement lab at the California Institute of [...]

The revolution has been edited out

The strange things that happen in a Beijing newsroom | Jul. 30, 2006. 01:00 AM IAIN MARLOW | SPECIAL TO THE TORONTO STAR
Like a dove flying a gauntlet, my article flew out of my hands at 6 p.m. and landed in the next day’s paper a flightless, ugly thing. It sailed the jet streams of copy editors, [...]