Why do groups of people inflict violence on unarmed neighbors? (Germany, Rwanda, Darfur, Nanking....). Here's the neuroscience point of view.
The shootings at Sandy Hook sparked debate ranging from gun control to bulletproof windows. But the most fruitful approach may be to prioritize our discussion of mental illness.
I am the scientific advisor for the TNT television drama, Perception, starring Eric McCormack and Rachael Leigh Cook. Learn more about the show.
If you're interested in synesthesia, check out this lecture I gave at the University of Sydney in Australia.
Do you think you might have synesthesia? Go to synesthete.org to take the tests and find out. For more about synesthesia, see my book Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
To liberalise or prohibit? I recently joined Eliot Spitzer, Julian Assange, Vicente Fox, Russell Brand, Richard Branson and several others for an online debate.
I had the pleasure of being profiled by my favorite magazine, The New Yorker. Read the article here.
Interested in issues of memory and the brain? Watch a clip of David on the History Channel.
We love NPR's Radiolab. If you haven't listened to it yet, you should. Check out several episodes featuring David's science or writing.
Want to know how neuroscience will force major changes in our criminal justice system? Read David's article The Brain on Trial in The Atlantic. Now anthologized in 2012 Best American Science and Nature Writing.
Listen to David discussing Sum -- and actor Jeffrey Tambor reading stories from the book -- on WNYC's Radiolab.
Read David's Op-Ed piece in The New York Times regarding time and Obama's withdrawal plan.
