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Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
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Category: Brain and Behavior
If you watch a fake hand standing in for your right hand, and it is touched with a brush while at the same time your left hand, hidden from view, is similarly touched, you feel your right hand being touched. This spooky finding is called...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:07 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
As the mother cougar approached the flood and all hope seemed to diminish, the narrator said "The mother cougar, driven by an instinct to save her species, searched desperately for any sign of the third kitten, who represented the next generation of cougars."
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:59 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain and Behavior
Orgasm frequency varies with measured emotional intelligence, even among twins.
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:05 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's BoyfriendWhen I first received this book to review, I thought "Oh, great, another one of these pop evolutionary psychology books by some academic with a large mortgage payment" (or words...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain and Behavior
Lithium has long been used as a psychotherapeutic drug, and treatment with lithium demonstrably reduces incidence of suicide. Lithium also occurs naturally in groundwater to varying degrees. This study explores the relative amount of Lithium in groundwater and suicide in 18 municipalities in Oita prefecture,...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:36 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain and Behavior
I'm starting to worry that the last few Friday Weird Science write-ups by Scicurious (who seems, these days, to be the primary blogger at Neurotopia) have been of papers that I happen to have read. Just so you know: Thousands of papers are published per...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:26 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain and Behavior
Years of training have converted much of the Republican base to a pack of dogs, chained to an ideological stake, always ready to bark at the movement of shadows beyond the fence. Bachmann's congressional district is demographically as close as any district can be to this Republican ideal. This is why Bachmann can get re-elected and continue to be invited to speak at major Party gatherings. Bachmann is not Newt Gingrich. She does not grasp the overarching strategy. She is not a simpleton's face hiding a brilliant political mind. She is just the simpleton. I doubt she is even taking marching orders from anyone. Bachmann is merely one of the dogs, among many, barking at the shadows moving behind the fence.
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:11 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
The male and female human brains are different. Some of the better documented differences are similar to differences seen in other mammals. They are hard to find, very small, and may or may not be of great significance. Obviously, some are very important because they...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:48 PM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Archaeology
Or not. Much is made of the early use of stone tools by human ancestors. Darwin saw the freeing of the hands ad co-evolving with the use of the hands to make and use tools which co-evolved with the big brain. And that would make...
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