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Brain & Behavior
November 7, 2009
Gene Expression
What does not kill the group, makes it stronger! I recently finished reading The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures, a new book by Nicholas Wade, a science writer for The New York Times. Before giving it the "full treatment" I thought it behooved me to...
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
An Open Letter... ...to the guy next to me in seminar yesterday morning. Dear Dr. Hot-Shot, I realize that you thought you were being discrete by turning your phone to vibrate while you texted at a break neck pace during seminar, but when...
November 6, 2009
Terra Sigillata
Response to Dan Ariely's Duke Sex Toy Study Is Predictably Irrational An IRB-approved study by a well-known author and academic behavioral economist is criticized by a campus minister.
The Frontal Cortex
Crying Babies This is absolutely fascinating, yet another reminder that the structure of language infects everything. Here's Nell Greenfieldboyce, at NPR: The distinctive sounds of a newborn's first cries may be influenced by the mother tongue of its parents. A new study...
Neurophilosophy
The illusion of time: Perceiving the effect before the cause A temporal illusion in which an effect is perceived after its cause reveals details of how visual events enter conscious awareness
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week Current Status of a Model System: The Gene Gp-9 and Its Association with Social Organization in Fire Ants: The Gp-9 gene in fire ants represents an important model system for studying the evolution of social organization in insects as...
A Blog Around The Clock
Josh Jones Studied Whales and Dolphins in The Garbage Patch (video)
Neurotopia
Friday Weird Science: The Stuttering Priapism Who would have thought Sci would be running a normal pub-med search, for something COMPLETELY not weird science material, and come across...this? Truly, it was meant to be! This case report is probably one of the weirdest things I've seen...
November 5, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
The Open Laboratory 2009 - the submissions so far Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 470 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007...
Cognitive Daily
What's the best way to take a study break? Greta and I did our undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, or as a commonly-sold T-shirt on campus put it, "where fun goes to die." To say that Chicago didn't emphasize academics over a social life is to deny...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Native language shapes the melody of a newborn baby's cry You could have a good stab at distinguishing between German and French babies based on their cries. French newborns cry a rising melody, with higher frequencies becoming more prominent as the cry progresses. German newborns tend to cry with a falling melody.
Neuron Culture
"No pity party, no macho man." Psychologist Dave Grossman on surviving killing Dave Grossman's take on the psychic toll of killing (and almost being killed) among the most compelling.
The Corpus Callosum
This Is Depressing The standard wisdom in management of Major Depression, is that medication plus psychotherapy is better that either treatment alone. Many studies have shown this. But this one does not. Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy and Brief Supportive Psychotherapy for...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 22 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
Neuron Culture
The importance of stupidity in scientific research (and in writing), by Randy Burgess "Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time." This goes for writing too.
November 4, 2009
The Frontal Cortex
Sleep As a chronic insomniac, I'm always a little disturbed when I learn about the lingering cognitive effects of a bad night sleep: In a study at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in 2003, for example, scientists examined the...
Cognitive Daily
Can artificial sweeteners really help us lose weight? My SEED column this week focuses on artificial sweeteners. Can switching to artificial sweeteners help solve the obesity problem in the U.S.? Here's a snippet: Saunders says an August report from the American Heart Association (AHA) made it quite clear...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Even without practice, sleep improves memory of movements One of the best memory aids we have available to us is something we all do on a daily basis - sleep. Studies have found that sleep enhances our memories of facts and physical skills alike. It can even help us remember movements that we see others do.
November 3, 2009
Photo Synthesis
Holy Water? The human brain has an uncanny ability to see the human form in the most unlikely places. Religious icons in toast and faces in the clouds are but a few examples. Here it is droplets of water colliding with...
Guilty Planet
Levitt and Dubner Visit Seattle Levitt and Dubner left a lot to be desired.
Cognitive Daily
Anime film characters: Do we perceive the intended race, or our own? One of my favorite cartoons as a child was "Speed Racer." It featured an all-American boy (first name, "Speed," last name, "Racer") engaging in that most American of pastimes: driving fast cars. Except that "Speed Racer" wasn't really American; it...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week New this morning in PLoS ONE, PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers: Mandatory Disclosure of Pharmaceutical Industry-Funded Events for Health Professionals:...
The Frontal Cortex
Temptation Why are we so dishonest? Why do we bad things, even when we know we're doing something bad? Ever since Adam and Eve ate that apple, we've assumed that there is something inherently tempting about sin. If left to our...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
In a pandemic climate, public sneezing increases fears of unrelated risks In this pandemic era, seeing someone sneeze makes people more worried about not just contracting diseases, but about completely unreated threats like heart attacks, crime and accidents too.
November 2, 2009
The Frontal Cortex
Arts Education Michael Posner and Brenda Patoine make a neuroscientific case for arts education. They argue that teaching kids to make art has lasting cognitive benefits: If there were a surefire way to improve your brain, would you try it? Judging by...
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As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.
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