The Guardian reports. February 2001 Economics - Richard Thaler has led a revolution in the study of economics by understanding the strange ways people behave with their money. Obituary - Claude Elwood Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation of modern information theory while working at Bell Labs in the 1940s, died on Saturday. He was 84. Correspondence in the New York Times provides a range of opinion.
Nobody seems to be listening.
Obituary - Arnold Jerome Friedhoff who explored the biological contribution to mental disorders has died in New York, aged 77. Neuroscience - U.S. researchers have produced laboratory mice with human brain cells. Sexual dimorphism in noise perception - Mary W. Meagher and Jamie Rhudy have found that women are more sensitive to noise than men, and that they show an increased tolerance to pain in response. Blaine Fowers and colleagues think so. Neuroscience and psychoanalysis - Philip Wong and Howard Shevrin have uncovered neurobiological evidence for the human unconscious state.