Stuff by Jim Schnabel
SOME RECENT PIECES
“Standard Model,” Nature (6 Aug 2008).
“The Sounds of Silent Movies,” Nature (5 Aug 2008).
“Interview with Christof Koch,” The Dana Foundation (26 June 2008).
“Rewired for Sight and Sound,” Nature (14 May 2008).
“Testosterone and Depression,” The Dana Foundation (18 April 2008).
“Neuromarketers: the New Influence-Peddlers?” The Dana Foundation (25 Mar 2008).
“Eye of the Beholder,” The Dana Foundation (1 May 2008).
“What’s Sleep Good for Anyway?” The Dana Foundation (29 Feb 2008).
BOOKS
Forever Young: Science and the Search for Immortality (Bloomsbury, 1998). About the treatment of aging as a disease. Covers researchers working on Alzheimer’s disease, transplant immunology, and the genetics of DNA repair, among other areas.
Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies (Dell, 1997). About the bizarre U.S. government program, 1972-1996, which tried to put the ESP in espionage.
Dark White: Aliens, Abductions and the UFO Obsession (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 1994). A look at “alien abductions” as a cultural/psychological phenomenon.
Round in Circles: Poltergeists, Pranksters and the Secret History of the Cropwatchers (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 1993). A romp through the fields of southern England with the “crop circles” believers.
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SOME OLD PIECES
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi,” Independent on Sunday Review 1995
“They’re Coming to Take Us Away,” Independent on Sunday Review 1994
“Band Wagon Syndrome,” Washington Post 1994
“Alzheimer’s Disease: Arthritis of the Brain?” New Scientist 1993 [NS link]
“The 65 Faces of Donna,” Independent on Sunday Review 1993
“The Magic Bullet that Burst the Bubble,” New Scientist 1992
“Corn Flakes,” The Independent Magazine 1991
BOOK REVIEWS
The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore
Reading the Enemy’s Mind, by Paul Smith
Rewriting the Soul, by Ian Hacking
PEER-REVIEWED
“Puck in the Laboratory: The Construction and Deconstruction of Hoaxlike Deception in Science,” Science, Technology & Human Values Vol. 19, No. 4 (Autumn 1994), 459-92. [Sage Publications link]
HERETICAL ESSAYS
