December 31, 2006
Category: Podcasts
Here's the Cognitive Daily weekly podcast for December 31 (one day late -- sorry, we're just back from vacation!). Don't forget that you can subscribe to the podcast using the special RSS feed: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/rss-podcasts.xml To subscribe using iTunes, select Subscribe...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 4:31 PM • 0 Comments •
December 28, 2006
Category: Research
This is a guest post by Dominic Ippolito, one of my top student writers from Fall of 2006 Everyone knows a "perfectionist." We think of him or her as someone who strives for, and often attains, a high level of...
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Posted by Greta Munger at 11:30 AM • 4 Comments •
December 26, 2006
Category: Research
This is a guest post by Anna Coon, one of my top student writers from fall 2006 If a baby is placed in a new, strange situation, a common reaction is to look to its mother. For example, whenever I...
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Posted by Greta Munger at 9:52 AM • 6 Comments •
December 23, 2006
Category: Podcasts
Here's the Cognitive Daily weekly podcast for December 23. Don't forget that you can subscribe to the podcast using the special RSS feed: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/rss-podcasts.xml To subscribe using iTunes, select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu, then paste or type...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 9:44 AM • 1 Comments •
December 22, 2006
Category: Casual Fridays
So it's December 22, and you are one of the few people who hasn't already bagged out of work to get ready for the holidays. You've been absolutely deluged -- swamped with work -- the entire month of December. You've...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 11:55 AM • 2 Comments •
December 21, 2006
Category: Research
Take a look at these two images. Do they belong in the same category or different categories? You say the same? Wrong -- they're different! The one on the right is a little blurrier. What about these two? These are...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 9:37 AM • 5 Comments •
December 20, 2006
Category: News
Fellow ScienceBlogger and SAT-Challenge co-investigator Chad Orzel has been awarded tenure at Union College. Why not head over there and offer him congratulations? Let's see if we can make his the biggest ScienceBlogs discussion thread ever! Now get to work...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 12:31 PM • 1 Comments •
December 19, 2006
Category: Research
As parents of a 15-year-old, Greta and I are very interested in what causes people to behave aggressively. We know a lot about specific causes of aggression -- violent media, testosterone, guns, and personal insults can all lead to aggressive...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 1:36 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: General / Site news
ScienceBlogs is celebrating its first birthday with a wonderful portrait of the entire ScienceBlogs family. It's not quite a year yet (I think we were officially online on January 11, 2005), but if they're happy to celebrate early, so are...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 9:31 AM • 1 Comments •
December 18, 2006
Category: News
The cover story in this month's Scientific American, written by mega-entrepreneur Bill Gates, discusses the future of robotics. In the article Gates describes one of robotics' thorniest problems. Having spent some time working with Lego Mindstorms, I can vouch that...
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Posted by Dave Munger at 7:54 AM • 7 Comments •