January 2006
Schadenfreude? Or Just Lack Of Empathy?
Researchers have discovered the region in the brain where our empathy, or lack of it, resides:
[from This Is Your Brain on Schadenfreude - New York Times by James Gorman] Tania Singer at University College London and her colleagues, who published a schadenfreude paper in Nature, were not actually searching for schadenfreude when they used functional magnetic resonance imaging to watch the brains...
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What's Your Dangerous Idea?
This year’s World Question from the Edge:
[from THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006]
The Edge Annual Question — 2006 WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?
The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about...