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Lectures & Academic

Articles and Essays

How Evil Happens

Piece written for Aeon on the Syndrome E hypothesis: "Is Neuroscience Getting Closer to Explaining Evil Behavior?"

 

Thoughts Made Visible

Written for issue on "States of Mind" of Lapham�s Quarterly

 

A Chateau in the Loire Valley

For Architectural Digest

 

Body and Soul

Written for Lapham´s Quarterly issue on "Flesh".

 

Neuro-News

Response to the 2016 Edge Question: What do you consider the most interesting scientific news? What makes it important?

 

Paris, Searching for Peace

Written for New York Daily News after the Paris attacks of November 13th, 2015.

 

The Passage from Normal to Dark

A testimonial written for Politico on the day after the Paris attacks of November 13th.

 

Metarepresentation

Response to the 2015 Edge Foundation Annual Question: What do you think about machines that think?

 

The Rights of Spring

An essay on nostalgia, for Indian Quarterly (issue 3:2, January-March 2015).

 

Indian Summer

A review of John Adams´s opera A Flowering Tree, in Indian Quarterly, Vol 2, Issue 4.

 

As A Lute Out Of Tune: Robert Burton�s Melancholy

Piece written for The Public Domain Review

 

The Curry Soup

Written for the "roundtable" blog of Lapham´s Quarterly.

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