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Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung believed that dreams were windows into the unconscious, but many scientists now believe they may have no deeper meaning.
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In the pre-modern world, circadian rhythms were synched with the rising and setting of the sun, but modern life requires many to adjust their internal clocks to accommodate alternative sleeping […]
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For many with insomnia, their minds are like stereos at maximum volume with no off switch.
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Sleep is hardly a period of inactivity for the brain. During a normal night’s sleep, the brain cycles through various stages including REM sleep, during which the brain is just […]
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A conversation with the sleep psychologist.
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Stern’s research uncovered a neural network in the brain that accounts for some people’s ability to function well despite a lack of sleep.
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The iconic abnormal psych case of Phineas Gage provided scientists with the first hints that different functions like decision-making and language acquisition were grouped into localized areas within the brain.
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Scheck thinks we should do away with judicial elections, and should do more to educate the judiciary about scientific evidence.
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Eyewitness testimony is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, says Scheck. Psychologists and researchers have demonstrated a variety of ways that witnesses regularly misidentify suspects.
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“Nothing guarantees the conviction of an innocent person more than a lawyer that is not adequately funded or not competent to do the job,” says Scheck.
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Sometimes a prosecutor doesn’t want to admit that they’re wrong. Other times they don’t want to face the victim’s family after a conviction is overturned.
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Barry Scheck says the Innocence Project has transformed the way that the criminal justice system looks at error.
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Scheck’s group will take up the case of a convicted prisoner if there is the possibility that a DNA test—or multiple DNA tests—could prove them innocent.
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A conversation with the attorney and founder of the Innocence Project.
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Appel thinks it’s most important that children be born into families that want them. “My concern is for the potential gay child born into the bigoted family who mistreats that […]
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Appel thinks the most pressing ethical issue of our time is “the arbitrary distinction that people have more or fewer rights because they were born on one side of the […]
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Forcing people to make a doctor’s appointment in order to get medicine keeps some people from getting the care they need.
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In objecting to all of these phenomena, people say they’re concerned about the welfare of the individuals. But they’re really just interested in imposing their own social or religious values […]
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A person should have the right to end their own life, so long as they can prove that they are thinking rationally over a prolonged period of several days.
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The bioethicist believes that life should be divined by cognizance, by sentience, and by the ability to interact with the world. Infants who can’t do that should have their lives […]