Tag Archives: cognitive function
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 differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent or … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged astrology, attentional space, Ayurveda, cognitive function, faith-based medicine, intelligence, IQ, John Henryism, phytotherapy, Poverty, poverty trap, pseudoscience, scarcity, Sendhil Mullainathan, traditional medicine
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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 minutes of his speech, he spoke … Continue reading
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Tagged Bong Joon-ho, caste guilt, class conflict, cognitive function, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, Parasite, Parasite film, Poverty, Sendhil Mullainathan, Shaheen Bagh
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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 announced on October 11, 2012, that Broca’s area … Continue reading
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Tagged Broca's area, cognitive function, functional magnetic resonance imaging, language, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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