GQ: tourism in Rwanda (if you don't mind reading through the curious bit about arm hair growth)
Seed: neuroscience research on dopamine and behavior
“The only reason we could see it so clearly,” Montague says, “is because we came at it from this theoretical angle. If you were an experimentalist seeing this data, it would have been extremely confusing. What the hell are these cells doing? Why aren’t they just responding to the juice?” That same day Montague and Dayan began writing a technical paper that laid out their insight, explaining how these neurons were making precise predictions about future rewards. But the paper — an awkward mix of Schultz’s dopamine recordings and equations borrowed from computer science — went nowhere. “We wrote that paper 11 times,” Montague says. “It got bounced from every journal. I came this close to leaving the field. I realized that neuroscience just wasn’t ready for theory, even if the theory made sense.”
New Yorker: update on Burma
Slate: if you didn't spend the summer puzzling over all the indictables of the Bush administration, here's a handy ven diagram for reference
Ind: love in the time of civil war
non-sequitor:
Seed: the math of music
BBC: unassailable fashion
NYT: my friend Lebron leading the comeback of the dream team
Yahoo: but for our shared home state, no recovery in sight. 4 of the top 10 fatest dying cities in the states are in ohio. oh, ohio.
strange maps: 8 out of 10 fatest dying cities favor 'pop' over soda
22 August 2008
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