From The Editors’ Desk: Cognitive Errors, and Why We May or May Not Be as Smart as We Think We Are (or Would Like To Be)

As We May Think

AS WE MAY THINK by VANNEVAR BUSH

As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible o...

Are we as depressed as we think we are?

MEDICAL attitudes to psychotropic drugs in general and antidepressants in particular tend to be casual, and their effects seen as innocuous. Indeed if used as recommended by their manufacturers tricyclic antidepressants are not very effective drugs, although some of their side effects and interactions can be very serious. It has been stated that tricyclics generally have a margin of superiority...

As we may think and be: brain-computer interfaces to expand the substrate of mind

Citation: Serruya MD (2015) As we may think and be: brain-computer interfaces to expand the substrate of mind. As we may think and be: brain-computer interfaces to expand the substrate of mind Over a half-century ago, the scientist Vannevar Bush explored the conundrum of how to tap the exponentially rising sea of human knowledge for the betterment of humanity. In his description of a hypothetic...

The dairy fat paradox: Whole dairy products may be healthier than we thought