A Race of Storytellers
In the 1960’s, neuroscience researcher Michael Gazzaniga performed a series of now-famous experiments upon a set of patients who had had their corpus callosum—the thick body of nerve fibers which...
View ArticleAll News is Sports News
The story that news is the broccoli which the citizen must be made to eat has been retold with increasing alarm as digitization and the Internet have threatened traditional business models in the...
View ArticleHow Betting Can Improve the Social Sciences
The conversation over how useful betting is for improving the quality of discourse has gone from a slow burn to a rapid exchange in the last week. It has focused mostly around Alex Tabarrok’s claim...
View ArticleThe News and The Newsroom
Will McAvoy is on a mission to civilize. The lead anchor of the fictional Atlantis Cable News channel is mad as hell—and he’s not going to take it anymore. The self-satirized Republican in Name Only...
View ArticleProfessional Standards, Ideals, and Consumer Sovereignty
A practice involves standards of excellence and obedience to rules as well as the achievement of goods. To enter into a practice is to accept the authority of those standards and the inadequacy of my...
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