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The Appeal of Scientific Heroism

In 2008, the journalist Jonah Lehrer paid a visit to a lab in Lausanne, Switzerland, to profile Henry Markram, a world-renowned neuroscientist. Markram, a South African, had trained at a series of élite institutions in Israel, the United States, and…

The Unbearable Blandness of “Barney”

The new documentary “I Love You, You Hate Me” uses Barney to examine a broader phenomenon.Photograph by Vinnie Zuffante / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty  What made Barney, the purple dinosaur and nineties kids’-TV sensation, so infuriatingly loathsome? Was it…