Jonah Lehrer

Jonah Lehrer appears in the following:

Science: A Brain's Appetite

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Today in The Takeaway's Science segment, we talk about neuroscience. A handful of new studies suggest that in matters of weight loss, will power could lose out to brainpower. The brai...

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The Lowdown on High Self-Esteem

Friday, July 03, 2009

Stuart Smalley’s famous words of self love: "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me" could be hazardous to your mental health. A new study out of the Univer...

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Seeking Patterns

Monday, June 15, 2009

Randomness may govern the world around us, but does it guide us?

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Stochasticity

Monday, June 15, 2009

How stochasticity—a wonderfully smarty-pants word for randomness—drives our lives and the patterns we see around us.

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Random Rules

Monday, June 15, 2009

The business of life is the business of taking the disorder of the world, little bits of matter scattered here and there, and giving them shape, regularity, order. Or so we all thought.

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Journey to the Center of a Baby's Brain

Monday, May 25, 2009

New scientific research suggests that the mind of a baby is a humming, buzzing, supercharged learning machine, capable of taking in and processing enormous amounts of information. No...

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Decisions, Decisions

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Jonah Lehrer, editor at large for Seed Magazine, contributor to Radio Lab and the author of How We Decide, explains how humans make decisions using the latest insights from behavioral economics and neuroscience. What's the most rational or irrational decision you've ever made? What's your decision-making approach ...

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Empire State Forecast

Thursday, February 26, 2009

The federal stimulus money is on its way to New York. Gov. David Paterson (D-NY) talks about how he’ll spend it. Plus, Jonah Lehrer on the intersection between behavioral economics and neuroscience; and DJ Kool Herc and the West Indian origins of hip hop.

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The decider: How your brain makes up its mind

Monday, February 02, 2009

It seems like there are two kinds of people: the ones who agonize over every decision and the ones who go with their gut. There’s the guy on line at the coffee house who takes ten min...

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The science behind keeping (and breaking) New Year's resolutions

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Gained five pounds when you wanted to lose ten? Started smoking again after swearing you wouldn't? Not eat vegetables at every meal? Forget to not watch television? Who hasn’t had a N...

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The science of gift giving

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Feeling a little sheepish because you got your sister socks, and she got you a new purple iPod? Evolution can be blamed for the guilt — if not your poor taste in gifts. Jonah Lehrer, ...

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Choice

Monday, November 17, 2008

We turn up the volume on the voices in our heads, and try to get to the bottom of what really steers our decisions.

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Walking makes you smart

Thursday, November 13, 2008

"Just looking at a picture of nature was relaxing enough to actually produce some cognitive benefits." -- Jonah Lehrer

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The "Aha!" Moment

Thursday, August 07, 2008

The very moment when a perfect solution arrives in the brain may now be boiled down to a series of synapses. New Yorker contributor Jonah Lehrer breaks down the science of insight.

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Umami

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

The fifth taste, umami, is now at the forefront of modern cuisine. Gourmet magazine’s Ruth Reichl and Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, tell us more about what umami is and why it has such a powerful effect on taste.

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Body of War

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Phil Donahue has directed a new documentary about Tomas Young, who was paralyzed after serving in Iraq for just 5 days. Also: the history of the harpsichord. Find out how home cooks can move beyond just “following the recipe.” And Ruth Reichl and Jonah Lehrer on why the fifth taste, ...

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Proust Got There First

Monday, December 24, 2007

In his new book Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) Jonah Lehrer writes about how novelists and other artists intuited knowledge about the brain that scientists are only now figuring out.

Proust Was a Neuroscientist is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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Proust Got There First

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

In his new book Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) Jonah Lehrer writes about how novelists and other artists intuited knowledge about the brain that scientists are only now figuring out.

Proust Was a Neuroscientist is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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Musical Language

Monday, September 24, 2007

We explore the line between music and language, and turn to physics and biochemistry to ask how sound becomes feeling.

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Memory and Forgetting

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour: a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.

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