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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.
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
Cognitive Daily has been chosen to respond to the first question in a newly revised feature on ScienceBlogs: Ask a ScienceBlogger. Readers can submit questions, and they'll be answered by an expert in the field of inquiry (even though it's...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:00 PM • 21 Comments •
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This week's "Ask a ScienceBlogger" question is easy: The best science TV show is Mythbusters. Let's face it: most TV science programming is downright awful. It dumbs down the content, and tends not to explain the really interesting part of...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:27 PM • 12 Comments •
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This week's Ask a Scienceblogger: "Is severely regulating your diet for a month each year, as Muslims do during Ramadan, good for you?" I'd say that's nearly impossible to answer: there are too many other factors at work. But consider...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:54 AM • 6 Comments •
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I try to stay away from answering "Ask a Scienceblogger" when it strays too far from my areas of expertise. This week, the question is the following: I read this article in the NRO, and the author actually made some...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:18 AM • 15 Comments •
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Seed has asked all the sciencebloggers to respond to the following question: What movie do you think does something admirable (though not necessarily accurate) regarding science? Bonus points for answering whether the chosen movie is any good generally.... I talked...
Posted by Dave Munger at 7:23 AM • 8 Comments •
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Funny you asked. It's actually rather a long story. You see, about a year and a half ago, I had this idea to write a book. But, I thought to myself, my problem is that I'm not really an expert in anything. If only I had a real expert who could help me out with, you know, facts and things, I think I could write an excellent book. After racking my brain trying to figure out which of my friends might be interested on working on a book with me, I realized that my best friend -- my wife Greta -- was actually an expert in psychology.
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:37 PM • 2 Comments •
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This week's Ask a Scienceblogger inquires about our other research interests: Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why?... We talked about this...
Posted by Dave Munger at 7:37 AM • 4 Comments •
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This week's "Ask a Scienceblogger question" is: Since they're funded by taxpayer dollars (through the NIH, NSF, and so on), should scientists have to justify their research agendas to the public, rather than just grant-making bodies? NO! The public isn't...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:31 PM • 11 Comments •
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This week's Ask a Scienceblogger question is "will the "human" race still be around in 100 years?" The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is this: we could face a number of catastrophes, including a pandemic, massive global...
Posted by Dave Munger at 6:27 AM • 2 Comments •
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All the ScienceBloggers have been asked to write about the recent invention they could wipe off the face of the earth. Their answers have been the usual suspects: nuclear bombs, land mines -- truly awful stuff -- and they might...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:48 PM • 5 Comments •
