Poverty, psychology and pseudoscience
From the abstract of 'Why Do People Stay Poor? Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh', November 24, 2020: There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differ…
cognitive function
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Review: 'Parasite' (2019)
In 2011, the Dalit rights scholar and activist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (then only Kancha Ilaiah) addressed a room of 150 or so students of the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. In the first 20 minu…
Problems associated with studying the brain
Paul Broca announced in 1861 that the region of the brain now named after him was the "seat of speech". Through a seminal study, researchers Nancy Kanwisher and Evelina Fedorenko from MIT an…