Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution Just a quick note on Malcolm Gladwell's Twitter/Social Change article in The New Yorker : It's an extremely thought-provoking piece, written with the usual flair. All contributed to the rise of Jonah Lehrer, the 31-year-old author, speaker and staff writer for The New Yorker, who then executed one of the most bewildering recent journalistic frauds, one that on Monday cost him his prestigious post at the magazine and his status as one of the most promising, visible and well-paid writers in the business. He's written for The New Yorker, Nature, Seed, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. He graduated from Columbia University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Last month, Jonah Lehrer found himself at the center of a journalism controversy regarding self-plagiarism and when, if ever, it was ethical to reuse your old content. Not that this matters, but I accept his apology and wish him luck.' At the time Lehrer was a rising star in science journalism. Jonah Lehrer (Photo credit: Knight Foundation) For a while, Jonah Lehrer, the science writer who admitted to fabricating quotes, plagiarism, and other journalism sins, seemed to … Jonah Lehrer, the super star science writer, has resigned from The New Yorker and admitted that quotes that he attributed to Bob Dylan in his … Watch Queue Queue And, says science writer Jonah Lehrer (a colleague of mine on NPR/WNYC's Radio Lab), he also created meals that tasted like no combination of … This video is unavailable.

Jonah Lehrer: Passions Of The Brain Fresh Air March 2, 2009 • According to new neuroscience studies, emotion has a strong influence on how the human brain makes decisions. On his Twitter account, Moynihan responded: 'Jonah Lehrer has resigned from the New Yorker and apologized to me. Jonah Lehrer is a Contributing Editor at Wired and the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Watch Queue Queue.