- Chris Chatham on the relationship between psychology and neuroscience
- Why healthy people call in sick for work
- Excellent long analysis of Isabel Peretz's "The Nature of Music from a biological perspective"
- For the attention-impaired: Excellent, shorter analysis of the above analysis
- Hey, we've got something to say about Peretz, too!
- More discussion on the nature of music
- Related but different: Figure out how to quantify people's tastes and win a million bucks
Update: A bonus link, which offers some support for something my 14-year-old son has been saying for a long time:
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