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Gay on TV: Tuesday, 17 November
GCN.ie Nov 17 09Mr G's musical is placed in jeopardy when his verbal abuse causes cast members to quit, Ja'mie reveals her surprising date for the dance, and Jonah gets into an altercation with Keiran after being laughed at during an assembly.
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A Nose Never Forgets
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Nov 14 09Jonah Lehrer connects smell and memory: Why is smell so sentimental? One possibility, which is supported by this recent experiment, is that the olfactory cortex has a direct neural link to the hippocampus.
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Beyond Arithmetic
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Nov 07 09Jonah Lehrer reviews some research showing the cognitive benefits of arts education: The current obsession with measuring learning certainly has some benefits (accountability is good), but it also comes with some serious drawbacks, since it diminishes all the forms of.
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Teacher Suspended Over Gay Animals
Gay Agenda Nov 01 09Dan Delong, an English teacher at Southwestern High School in Illinois, has been suspended after giving his students the assignment of reading “The Gay Animal Kingdom”, and article from the June 7, 2006, edition of Seed magazine, a science and culture publication.
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The Gay Animal Kingdom
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Oct 30 09An Southwestern High School English teacher has been suspended for having his students read an old article by Jonah Lehrer on the evolutionary roots of homosexuality.
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The Philosophy Of Cooking
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Oct 13 09Jonah Lehrer posts an article of his that was slated for the pages of the January Gourmet: Most things in life become more automatic with time.
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From Motor City to Sin City
Kenneth in the 212 Sep 25 09
Detroit native Jonah Wilkins -- dancing star of the Vegas sensation "Jubilee! -- graces the cover of INSTINCT magazine's expanded gay travel issue.
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IPhone As Divining Rod
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 18 09Jonah Lehrer daydreams: Before long, I bet we'll have simple preference tools installed on our phones.
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Marijuana Goes Mainstream, Ctd
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 13 09Jonah Lehrer continues a discussion he began at the Dish: I thought this brand new paper on stress and the cannabinoid receptor was extremely interesting.
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Low-Watt Neurons
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 12 09Jonah Lehrer marvels: This computational efficiency is the single most astonishing fact of the mammalian brain.
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The Marathon Ends
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 07 09by Patrick Appel Andrew returns tomorrow morning. Many, many thanks to Jim Manzi, Julian Sanchez and Jonah Lehrer for their hard work this past week.
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Wine Ratings
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 05 09by Jonah Lehrer You know those tiny gold medals that appear on wine labels? It turns out they're mostly meaningless: Writing in the Journal of Wine Economics, retired Cal State Humboldt professor Robert Hodgson said he looked at the results.
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The Benefits of Vacation
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 04 09by Jonah Lehrer It's almost Labor Day, which means that many of us are about to engage in the great American ritual of sitting in traffic on the way to a large body of water.
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A Mugging on Lake Street
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 03 09by Jonah Lehrer On the afternoon of May 9, 2008, John Conroy was biking home from the Loop in Chicago, when he noticed a group of teenagers standing around a street corner.
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Classical Improv
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 03 09by Jonah Lehrer When most people think about musical improvisation, they imagine Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, inventing melodies in smoky jazz clubs.
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The Autistic Surfer
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 02 09by Jonah Lehrer In the latest issue of Outside Magazine, I profile Clay Marzo, a rising star on the pro surfing circuit.
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Surgical Souvenirs
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 02 09by Jonah Lehrer What makes for an effective surgery? At first glance, the answer seems simple: surgery is about brute anatomy.
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Texas Justice and Psychology, Continued
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 01 09by Jonah Lehrer A few reader emails, in response to my post on the Cameron Todd Willingham case and the Just World Theory: Beyond the horror of the Willingham case, I think it's important to note another side to this.
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Alcohol and Exercise
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 01 09by Jonah Lehrer A counterintuitive finding: people who regularly drink alcohol also exercise more. Obviously, there are plenty of confounding variables here - maybe drinkers exercise in order to burn off that six-pack of beer - but it's yet another.
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A Just World
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 01 09by Jonah Lehrer I’m still trying to shake some haunting thoughts of Cameron Todd Willingham, the Texas man who now appears to have been executed for a crime he didn’t commit.
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