May 17, 2008
Blog Entries by Gary Marcus
Procrastination: Adaptation or Kluge?
Does Brain Imaging Make You Dumb?
9 Comments | Posted March 22, 2008 | 07:51 PM (EST)
I'm not talking about sticking your head in fMRI scanner, which, so far as anybody can tell, is perfectly safe. (Unless you happen to have a pacemaker or pieces of shrapnel in your head, in which case you might want to give the whole procedure a miss).
No,...
Hillary, Don't be a Nader
Posted March 17, 2008 | 12:04 AM (EST)
Dear Senator Clinton,
I like you. A lot. I admire your efforts for children and in health care, and I think you might well be better than Senator Obama in making day-to-day policy decisions. Honestly, I think you'd make a great president.
But this is not your year. Obama's got...
Client 9: What was he Thinking?
Posted March 11, 2008 | 11:12 AM (EST)
How could a man with seemingly unlimited career prospects squander so much for so little?
I'm not of course talking about the $4,300, which, at the time, may have seem liked a good deal. Powerful men, as the saying goes, don't pay prostitutes for sex, they pay them to go...
The Truth About Antidepressants?
Posted February 27, 2008 | 12:49 PM (EST)
Dashing by Google News before bed, I noticed that the usually careful Washington Post had ran a headline saying, "Only Severely Depressed Benefit From Antidepressants: Study", which I, can only imagine, will lead hundreds, if not thousands of people to get off their anti-depressants -- and probably for the...
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
NEW UPDATE BELOW As violence in Iraq continues -- clashes today left 11 dead and 19 injured -- President...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
Posted May 14, 2008 | 07:22 PM (EST)