Lauren R. Weinstein is a cartoonist based in New Jersey. She is currently working on a graphic novel tentatively entitled How to Draw a Nose. Her previous books include Girl Stories and The Goddess of War.
Cutting-edge science, unraveled by the very brightest living thinkers.
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One question for Nils Köbis, a social psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
One question for Michèle Belot, an economist at Cornell University.
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A positive spin on our past can help inure us against pain.
One question for Matt Killingsworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
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