Weekly Digest #105

Something for the weekend:

1. The Nature of Consciousness and What To Do About It

2. The WEIRD Trio: The Cultural Gap between Physicians, Learners, and Patients in Pluralistic Societies

3. ‘A medication prescribed for Parkinson’s and other diseases can transform a patient’s personality, unleashing heroic bouts of creativity or a torrent of shocking, even criminal’ Link

4. The Biological and Social Dimensions of Human Knowledge

5. How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

6. Mental health campaigns place huge trust in people’s ability to act as therapists. But when should professionals step in?

7. What should instructors be aiming at when they seek to instil critical thinking in their students?

8. Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia

9. Drew Leder: The Healing Body: Creative Responses to Illness, Aging, and Affliction

10. ‘“It’s all about identity,” Grandi tells me between mouthfuls of osso buco bottoncini. He is a devotee of Eric Hobsbawm, the British Marxist historian who wrote about what he called the invention of tradition. “When a community finds itself deprived of its sense of identity, because of whatever historical shock or fracture with its past, it invents traditions to act as founding myths,” Grandi says’ Link

11. Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?

12. 14,000 Prescription Lenses Dangle like Dewdrops in a Lush Japanese Forest

13. How ‘shoe doping’ changed marathon times forever – in ways we still don’t fully understand and this

14. A powerful new vision of the history of science through the lens of disability studies

15. Cellular landscape