Ferris Bueller : The Frontal Cortex

Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired. He's also written for The New Yorker, Seed, Nature, the Boston Globe and is a contributor to Radio Lab. He's the author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist. His new book is How We Decide. He comments here on Megan Daum's interesting reflection on on the late comedy director John Hughes, and his eccentric cinematic representations of adolescence:

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Looking at Ferris, many a young man felt he was starring in the mirror.

"Ferris Bueller's Day Off," as you may recall, was a comedy, not a "disease of the week" program on the major networks.