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      1. Reading Behave now. By neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky.
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      Promising intro explaining problems of categorization in diagnosis and evaluation. With takedowns of Nobel laureates Egaz Moniz (developed frontal lobotomies) and Konrad Lorenz (animal behaviorist and member of the Office of Race Policy in the Nazi party).
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    "They helped shape who and how we educate and our views on what social ills are fixable and when we shouldn't bother. They enabled the destruction of the brains of people against their will. And they helped implement final solutions for problems that didn't exist."
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      Finally a book that problematizes human behavior a bit more than describing a habit loop. 👏
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        Terms like aggression, compassion, sympathy, competition, cooperation, revenge, violence, reciprocity can all mean different things to scientists living inside different disciplines.
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          It’s weird how many neuroscience books I read that mention the activities attributed to the left and right parts of the brain, often with an image, and then clarify it’s not really true. That’s not how you kill a myth. 🤔
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