Click Here to Read: What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine By Gary Greenberg in The New York Times Magazine on November 7, 2018.

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Click Here to Read:  Your native languages and affects what you can and can’t see by Emma Young on the Research Digest website on November 2, 2018.

Click Here to Read: The Biological Roots of Intelligence by Shawna Williams on the Real Clear Science website on November 3, 2018.

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Click Here to Read: Science Confirms It: People Are Not Pets: Research on the efficacy of rewards tells us that we can’t bribe others into doing what we want By Alfie Kohn in The New York Times on October 27, 2018.

Goats at the zoo of the bois d’Attilly (Seine-et-Marne, France). Photo: Tangopaso. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: Philosophy of Mind: An Overview by Laura Weed takes us on a tour of the mind/brain controversy on the Philosophy Now website, Issue 87.

Outer surface of the human brain: Date between 1894 and 1895: Source Popular Science Monthly Volume 46 Image: Sanger Brown M.D.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or less.

Click Here to Read: The big lie we’re told about climate change is that it’s our own fault: How to deal with despair over climate change.By Mary Annaise Heglar on the Vox website on October 11, 2018.

Icebergs, 14th August , St. Anthony, Newfoundland. Photo:Gérald Tapp Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read: Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three scientists who harnessed ‘the power of evolution’ by Ben Guarino in the Washington Post on October 3, 2018.
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