12/03/2009

Around the Web

Here is the latest installment of Around the Web.  Once again, I have picked a few of the posts or articles I found to be particularly intriguing or illuminating.  Hopefully, they peak your curiosity as well:

  1. The Situationist has a great post on The Situation of Violence.
  2. The Neuroethics and Law Blog has a helpful post about some new abstracting services on SSRN.
  3. New Scientist has a piece about brain imaging and mind reading.
  4. Nature News has a piece about "total recall."
  5. Wired has an article about recent work on how the brain processes language.
  6. Neurological Correlates has a post on how good psychopaths are at selected victims and getting away with murder.
  7. Machines Like Us has a post about the purported incoherence of free will.
As always, happy reading!
Dec 3, 2009 3:19:00 AM | Around the Web

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