Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Wired has a fascinating interview with psychopath researcher Kent Kiehl. He of the mobile brain scanner.
Scanning brain energy could help predict who will wake from vegetative state. Interesting piece on preliminary research covered by The Conversation
Contrary to news stories, a recent study did not tell us that smoking weed damages your brain, reports The Daily Beast.
Gay genes? Yeah, but no, well kind of… but, so what? Excellent piece from Wiring the Brain. You guys all read Wiring the Brain right?
The Association for Psychological Science has an archive of interviews with legends of psychological science. Harlow’s wire monkey, the Bobo doll, Mischel’s uneaten marshmallow…
In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind. An extensive 25-part radio series on the history of psychology kicks off on Monday 21st April on BBC Radio 4.
The United Nations release a report that has everything you ever wanted to know about your chance of being murdered. Pro-tip: don’t be male.
The evolutionary psychology of facial furniture. Scicurious on the behavioural science of beards.
Scientific American Mind reports on highlights from the recent Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting.
Irrationality ninja Dan Ariely has a kickstarter to make a documentary on dishonesty. 20 days left, a few more backers and it could make it. Looks fascinating.
Bloomberg on the booming business in behavioral finance. Although why not apply it to bankers rather than consumers to stop them fucking the economy? You can put the economics Nobel in the post.
A fascinating piece on the social and biopolitical role of bleach in a Nicaraguan community from the ever excellent Somatosphere.
Mind Hacks 
i did not understand the narrative well!
What exactly is the writer trying to convey?
Thanks for the tip on the radio series – but the 25th April isn’t a Monday. Is this a typo? I went to the BBC page and typically they don’t bother to tell you when the programme is going to be broadcast. How insane is that? I simply do not understand the BBC’s website when it comes to finding programme information like this.
Ah, they do have the time up there, my mistake. Monday 21st, 13.45 UK time
Now fixed. Thank you!