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Greta Munger is Professor of Psychology at Davidson College whose works include The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions. Dave Munger is co-founder and editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. And yes, he is married to Greta.
August 31, 2007
Category: Casual Fridays
Last week we asked our readers about where they got their news. I haven't watched local news for years, and I was wondering if anyone else in the blogosphere did. As several respondents pointed out, our results aren't going to...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:28 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: News
Today is Blog Day, which means we're supposed to suggest five new blogs so our readers can expand their horizons. I think I'm going to end up linking to more than five blogs. Here goes: The Anterior Commisure discusses the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:22 AM • 6 Comments •
August 30, 2007
Category: News
When Greta and I were married, we had to go through a series of interviews with the pastor. For the most part, these were benign, but there was a bit of a moment of tension when he asked these questions:...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:18 AM • 28 Comments •
August 29, 2007
Category: Opinion
Apropos of the Chess/AI discussion that's going on on the front page of ScienceBlogs today (and here at CogDaily), I noticed this little gem in a book I'm currently reading for a review (Sandra and Michael Blakeslee's The Body Has...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:36 PM • 28 Comments •
August 28, 2007
Category: Research
We can recognize the faces of our friends very quickly from just a snapshot. Within 150 milliseconds of being flashed a photo, brain signals respond differently to photos containing animals than photos with no animals. We can categorize scenes as...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:23 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: News
When I was in school, teachers often implored us to not put off studying to the last minute. Sometimes they even suggested that we spread out our studying over a period of weeks. But who has time for that? Most...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:59 AM • 21 Comments •
August 27, 2007
Category: News
The blogosphere is abuzz with reports about a new initiative by commercial scholarly publishers to discredit the open access movement. Prism describes itself as an organization to "protect the quality of scientific research", which it hopes to do by opposing...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:59 AM • 46 Comments •
Category: Opinion
It's been a decade since world chess champion Garry Kasparov was first defeated by a computer. Since then, even after humans retooled their games to match computers, computers have managed draws against the world's greatest players. It seems only a...
Posted by Dave Munger at 9:32 AM • 21 Comments •
August 24, 2007
Category: Casual Fridays
Casual Fridays is back from summer break! This week's study focuses in on local TV news. Does anyone actually watch that stuff? If so, who?
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:34 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: General / Site news
Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting has announced a contest to design an icon to identify serious blog posts discussing peer-reviewed research. Anyone will be able to use the icon on their blog posts whenever the post is a serious commentary...
Posted by Dave Munger at 8:25 AM • 3 Comments •
