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Brain & Behavior
November 23, 2009
Neuron Culture
Orchids and dandelions on the Brian Lehrer Show I'll be on WNYC's Brian Lehrer show this morning, 11:06 to 11:25, discussing my Atlantic story about the "orchid gene" hypothesis, which recasts some of our most important vulnerability genes -- depression, ADHD, hyperaggression and the like -- as genes that can also underlie heightened function both as individuals and a species.
November 22, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
The Amazing Bouncing Pebble Toad (video) Seen on DeLene's Facebook wall.......
Guilty Planet
Using Reputation to Save the Oceans Why focusing on consumers to save our oceans is not enough.
The Frontal Cortex
Reverse-Engineering Last week, a team of computer scientists led by Dharmendra S. Modha announced what sounded like an impressive breakthrough for neuroscience-inspired computing: Using Dawn Blue Gene / P supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab with 147,456 processors and 144 TB...
November 21, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
The craziest fish jaws ever (video) (via Deep Sea News)...
A Blog Around The Clock
The Open Laboratory 2009 - one of the last calls for submission! Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST! Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more...
DrugMonkey
Here we go again. Ecstasy, death...unsubstantiated claims. Canada. Again. This time in Whistler: A 20-year-old male had been found unconscious by friends. When police arrived, Whistler Fire Rescue Service and Emergency Health Services personnel were performing CPR, but failed to revive the victim, who was pronounced dead...
November 20, 2009
Cognitive Daily
Casual Fridays: What makes a good writer, and what motivates them? We received an astonishing number of responses to last week's Casual Fridays study, which claimed to be able to identify what makes a good writer in just a few minutes. Of course, I wasn't actually very confident that a brief...
Greg Laden's Blog
Artificial Intelligence on Collective Imagination ... There is nothing in the term "Artificial Intelligence" that implies that "intelligence" be human, but the implication is clear that such a thing as "intelligence" exists and that we have some clue as to what it is. But it might not, and we don't.
The Frontal Cortex
The Reading Brain I've got a review of Stanislas Dehaene's new book, Reading in the Brain, over at the Barnes and Noble Review: Right now, your mind is performing an astonishing feat. Photons are bouncing off these black squiggles and lines -- the...
Collective Imagination
And now we turn to the topic of Artificial Intelligence ... There is nothing in the term "Artificial Intelligence" that implies that "intelligence" be human, but the implication is clear that such a thing as "intelligence" exists and that we have some clue as to what it is. But it might not, and we don't.
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Memories can be strengthened while we sleep by providing the right triggers A new study suggests that you can strengthen individual memories by reactivating them as you snooze.
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week Circadian KaiC Phosphorylation: A Multi-Layer Network; Evaluation of the Oscillatory Interference Model of Grid Cell Firing through Analysis and Measured Period Variance of Some Biological Oscillators; 10 Reasons to be Tantalized by the B73 Maize Genome; On Theoretical Models of Gene Expression Evolution with Random Genetic Drift and Natural Selection; Combination of Real-Value Smell and Metaphor Expression Aids Yeast Detection; Motor and Linguistic Linking of Space and Time in the Cerebellum; Genome-Wide Scan for Signatures of Human Population Differentiation and Their Relationship with Natural Selection, Functional Pathways and Diseases; A Mechanistic Niche Model for Measuring Species' Distributional Responses to Seasonal Temperature Gradients; and more....
Neurotopia
Friday Weird Science: Oxytocin in your Cavernosa This post brought to you by Ben and Jerry's Dublin Mudslide Ice Cream. Because the Twitter people are like little devils on my shoulder, making me eat the cake... ( So Sci was going to do her final oxytocin post...
November 19, 2009
Neurophilosophy
The cognitive benefits of time-space synaesthesia Researchers from the University of Edinburgh show that some cognitive skills are enhanced in time-space synaesthetes, and suggest that time-space synaesthesia may underly the savant-like abilities of individuals with super memory syndrome
Cognitive Daily
Detecting faces: People use some of the same strategies computers do How does our visual system decide if something is a face? Some automated face-detecting software uses color as one cue that something is a face. For example Apple's iPhoto has no trouble determining that there are two faces in this...
Neurotopia
Oxytocin: The Love Molecule? And now Sci can finally get down to writing the hefty post in the oxytocin series, what she likes to call the effects on the soft stuff. The emotions, memory, trust, that kind of thing. She didn't know if she'd...
November 18, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants I have to say I am myself enjoying doing these introductory posts. I get to Google people, see who they are and what they've been up to lately, discover stuff about friends' past careers I did not know, find them...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE Breaking the News or Fueling the Epidemic? Temporal Association between News Media Report Volume and Opioid-Related Mortality; Rhesus Monkeys' Valuation of Vocalizations during a Free-Choice Task; The Typical Flight Performance of Blowflies: Measuring the Normal Performance Envelope of Calliphora vicina Using a Novel Corner-Cube Arena; In-Group Conformity Sustains Different Foraging Traditions in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella); The Real maccoyii: Identifying Tuna Sushi with DNA Barcodes - Contrasting Characteristic Attributes and Genetic Distances; Nestedness of Ectoparasite-Vertebrate Host Networks; Mutations in H5N1 Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin that Confer Binding to Human Tracheal Airway Epithelium; Genetic Variation and Recent Positive Selection in Worldwide Human Populations: Evidence from Nearly 1 Million SNPs; Extrapair Paternity and Maternity in the Three-Toed Woodpecker, Picoides tridactylus: Insights from Microsatellite-Based Parentage Analysis; and more....
November 17, 2009
Cognitive Daily
Men often treat their friends better than women do Who's more "sociable," men or women? Common sense says it's women, right? And many research studies back this impression up: Women are more interpersonal, more connected, more interdependent than men. Women are more likely to share intimate information with each...
The Frontal Cortex
Fourth Down Bill Belichick has never been the most popular coach in the NFL, but his Sunday night decision to go for it on 4th and 2 on his own 28 with two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter has even his...
The Frontal Cortex
The Tiger Woods Effect Success is intimidating. When we compete against someone who's supposed to be better than us, we start to get nervous, and then we start to worry, and then we start to make stupid mistakes. That, at least, is the lesson...
Mike the Mad Biologist
What Is the Heritability of Being an A--hole? Granted, being an asshole isn't a very precise trait, but why is this question never asked? Perhaps, with early intervention, Charles Murray might not have become an asshole.
The Corpus Callosum
Telephone Psychotherapy Effective The title of this article is a little bit misleading, although not deliberately so. The study examined the question of whether telephonic CBT - added to pharmacotherapy - was beneficial, in a primary care population. Note that the primary care...
A Blog Around The Clock
AMNH SciCafe: Naughty vs. Nice: The Biological Basis of Greed and Altruism From the American Museum of Natural History: SciCafe presents Naughty vs. Nice: The Biological Basis of Greed and Altruism, featuring biologist Lee Dugatkin, University of Louisville, and AMNH Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Rob DeSalle. Join fellow New Yorkers to discuss...
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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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