Reason.com - Free Minds and Free Markets
Reason logo Reason logo
  • Latest
  • Magazine
    • Current Issue
    • Archives
    • Subscribe
  • Video
  • Podcasts
    • All Shows
    • The Reason Roundtable
    • The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
    • The Reason Rundown With Peter Suderman
    • The Soho Forum Debates
  • Volokh
  • Newsletters
  • Donate
    • Donate Online
    • Donate Crypto
    • Ways To Give To Reason Foundation
    • Torchbearer Society
    • Planned Giving
  • Subscribe
    • Print/Digital Subscriptions
    • Gift Subscriptions

Login Form

Create new account
Forgot password

Neuroscience

man holding a joint

Marijuana

The Lazy Stoner Trope Is a Myth, Say Marijuana Researchers

Plus: giving migrants false addresses, regulating podcasts, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.19.2022 9:30 AM

sbk1100

Black Lives Matter

Scott Barry Kaufman on Narcissists and Libertarians

The author of the new book Transcend updates Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs for an era of pandemics, racial strife, and extreme polarization.

Nick Gillespie | 9.30.2020 4:24 PM

Final Thumbnail

Neuroscience

Stossel: The Science Around Male Brains vs. Female Brains

It's politically correct to say men and women are mentally the same, but Stossel lays out science that says otherwise.

John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 10.15.2019 8:40 AM

Large image on homepages

Partisan Identification

Don't Count on Americans Hating Each Other Any Less Post-Midterms

Baffled by and fearful of each other, the political tribes remain consumed by loathing and dedicated to total victory.

J.D. Tuccille | 11.15.2018 8:35 AM

Large image on homepages

Gender

How To Talk to People Who Think You're Evil and/or Insane: Podcast

A special all-female edition of the Reason Podcast

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.20.2018 2:30 PM

Large image on homepages

Reasontv

Dr. Helen Fisher on How Brain Chemistry Determines Personality and Politics

Is the libertarian mind a product of elevated dopamine and testosterone?

Ian Keyser and Todd Krainin | 4.18.2018 9:47 AM

Large image on homepages

Brain

Are Brain Implants to Control Moods Ethical?

If neuropharmaceuticals are ethical, so are machine-brain interface technologies.

Ronald Bailey | 11.30.2017 3:20 PM

Large image on homepages

Mass Shootings

The Futility of Looking for Mass Murder in Stephen Paddock's Brain

The reasons for the Las Vegas massacre cannot be found in the perpetrator's tissue or in the DSM.

Jacob Sullum | 10.27.2017 3:50 PM

Large image on homepages

Rape

Bad Science Behind Campus-Rape Guidance Echoes '80s Trauma Myths

The "neurobiology of trauma" on campus is based more on social-justice goals than science. We've been here before.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.12.2017 2:50 PM

Large image on homepages

Reasontv

A Bold New Plan to Help Addicts and End the Drug War

"Addiction rewires your brain like falling in love does," says Maia Szalavitz, author of "Unbroken Brain."

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 5.3.2016 1:00 PM

Large image on homepages

Politics

Brain Games' Jason Silva Explains Why Robots Won't Destroy the Human Race

Sex, drugs, God, and a hit TV show. Are there any limits to the techno-optimism of television's favorite "wonder junkie"?

Todd Krainin | 2.11.2016 12:45 PM

Large image on homepages

Science

Biomedical Study Reproducibility Scandalously Bad, Evidence for "Free Will," and Robot Rebellion by 2055

A scitech research and policy round up for January 5, 2016

Ronald Bailey | 1.5.2016 11:31 AM

Large image on homepages

Science & Technology

Drunken Recklessness May Be Genetic

A "relatively common" genetic mutation may trigger poor impulse control, especially when drinking.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.18.2015 1:13 PM

Large image on homepages

Uploading

Big Fun at Transhumanist Summer Camp

Neurotracking, video games, laughing rats, brainwave sniper training, robot love, and a "pernicious libertarian"

Ronald Bailey | 7.31.2015 1:30 PM

Large image on homepages

Politics

Hacking the Programs in Your Mind: Interview with Evolutionary Psychologists Leda Cosmides & John Tooby

By unlocking mechanisms that evolved in the brain, they've halted implicit racial bias and found the first female advantage in spatial cognition.

Justin Monticello and Nick Gillespie | 5.13.2015 1:32 PM

Large image on homepages

Politics

Neuroscientists Challenge Myths About Men and Porn

Porn ? penis problems

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.18.2015 12:10 PM

Large image on homepages

Culture

The Internet Is Changing Your Brain, Like Everything Else

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.14.2014 2:45 PM

Policy

This Is Your Brain on Drugs. Maybe.

Colorado's new anti-pot ads exaggerate the threat that marijuana poses to teenagers.

Jacob Sullum | 8.18.2014 9:30 AM

Politics

This Might Be Your Brain on Drugs: Colorado's Softer Anti-Pot Propaganda Is Still Propaganda

Jacob Sullum | 8.15.2014 11:33 AM

Politics

Attacking Marijuana Legalization, Bill Bennett Explains Why Better Pot Is Worse and Why Adults Must Be Treated Like Children

Jacob Sullum | 8.14.2014 8:47 PM

Policy

Does Using Drugs 'Even Just Once' Change Your Brain Forever?

Jacob Sullum | 6.16.2014 3:04 PM

Large image on homepages

Politics

Addicted to Brain Scans

The debate about sex addiction reflects a larger cultural confusion.

Stanton Peele | 2.26.2014 9:00 AM

Large image on homepages

Policy

Government Says You Can't Overcome Addiction, Contrary to What Government Research Shows

Why does the National Institute on Drug Abuse contradict its own research?

Stanton Peele | 2.1.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Brain-Dead Paternalism

Against forced plug-pulling and cadaveric incubation.

Ronald Bailey | 1.17.2014 1:30 PM

Bioethics

Ronald Bailey Opposes Brain-Dead Paternalism

Reason Staff | 1.17.2014 1:30 PM

Science & Technology

Tiny Human Brains Grown in Lab

About the size of peas

Reason Staff | 8.29.2013 5:00 PM

Policy

Neuroscientist Carl Hart: Science Says We Should Decriminalize Drugs

Sharif Matar and Paul Feine | 7.15.2013 11:30 AM

Science & Technology

Scientists Regrow Severed Spinal Cords in Rats

Could someday help humans do the same

Reason Staff | 6.26.2013 6:20 PM

Politics

Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt Wins Zócalo Book Prize

Matt Welch | 3.25.2013 7:42 AM

Science & Technology

Transplanted Human Brain Cells Make Mice Smarter: Bioethicists Wring Hands

Ronald Bailey | 3.8.2013 2:02 PM

Science & Technology

Neuroscience Suggests Lack of Free Will?

Still useful even as an illusion

Reason Staff | 1.16.2013 7:56 AM

Culture

"Magic Mushrooms" Show Signs of Helping in Addiction, Cancer Anxiety

Brian Doherty | 12.7.2012 1:10 PM

Science & Technology

Neuroscientists, Software Engineers Build Most Complex Brain Simulation Ever

They say

Reason Staff | 11.30.2012 1:00 PM

Science & Technology

New Study Shows Creativity is Often Part of Mental Illness

Writers are especially susceptible

Reason Staff | 10.16.2012 2:52 PM

Politics

Obama Wears Boring Suits So He Won't Tweet Pictures of His Penis

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.14.2012 11:39 AM

Culture

Neuro-Pretensions: Attacking the Science of Pop Neuroscience

Brian Doherty | 9.12.2012 7:52 PM

Politics

The Cloud Over Football

Because modern players are bigger and faster, they may be inflicting even worse brain damage on each other.

Steve Chapman | 9.10.2012 7:55 AM

Policy

Anti-Suicide Nasal Spray Considered by Army

It delivers a quick jolt of anti-depressants

Reason Staff | 8.20.2012 8:44 PM

Politics

In Search of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

A review of Who's In Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain

Ronald Bailey | 11.15.2011 6:00 PM

Politics

Steven Pinker on The Decline of Violence & "The Better Angels of Our Nature"

Why peace and prosperity are triumphing over death and destruction

Jim Epstein and Ronald Bailey | 11.3.2011 10:15 AM

Politics

A Trick of the Mind

Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.

Ronald Bailey | 8.2.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Are Safe Parks Making Kids Neurotic?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.19.2011 2:33 PM

Culture

Reason.tv: Author Zack Lynch on How Neuroscience Will Change the World

Reason Staff | 10.21.2010 3:00 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Three Ingredients for Murder—Neuroscientist James Fallon on why psychopaths kill and libertarians don't

Reason Staff | 8.19.2010 3:00 PM

  • About
  • Browse Topics
  • Events
  • Staff
  • Jobs
  • Donate
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Media
  • Shop
  • Amazon
Reason FacebookReason TwitterReason InstagramReason TikTokReason YoutubeReason ItunesReason on FlipboardReason RSS

© 2022 Reason Foundation | Accessibility | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use