( Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions )

It probably says something about me that I had already read about every study cited in Robert Kurzban's pop science work "Why Everyone (Else) Is A Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind" and all of the philosophers, but 75% of his movie references were lost upon me. I fail at pop. (Pretty funny, since that's what most of the Amazon reviewers ( Read more... )

I am very glad that I picked up Patrick Wall's "Pain: The Science of Suffering". For those unfamiliar with his work, Patrick Wall was one of the most honored medical researchers into pain, with over fifty years of field experience. He is also one of the inventors of the TENS unit, which many of you may have been so unfortunate as to experience in ( Read more... )

( Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings )

Fair warning; these reviews are an unexpected love-fest. [grin] Everything was good.

( Musashi )