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January 22, 2007

Is Beauty Really in the Eyes of Your Friends?

Category: Social Cognition

If you're a New Scientist reader, you may have come across this article titled "Beauty is in the eye of your friends." The brief article (which I found via 3 Quarks Daily) describes research purporting to show that whether (heterosexual)...

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January 20, 2007

People Prefer Curves

Category: Cognitive Psychology

Last year, I wrote two really long, boring posts about V.S. Ramachandran's ten principles of art. Those principles, mostly drawn from research on vision, included things like peak shift, symmetry, and contrast. It turns out Ramachandran may have missed a...

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January 17, 2007

Week of Science Challenge

Category: Blogs and Blogging

So RPM of Evolgen and I were sitting around, chattin' about science blogging, when we suddenly realized that more and more, what science bloggers blog about is dictated not by science, but by anti-science. Creationists, global warming skeptics, anti-vaccine nuts,...

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January 15, 2007

Encephalon 14

Category: Blogs and Blogging

Welcome, everyone, to the 14th installment of the brain blogging carnival Encephalon. If you're in the United States, I hope you've got today off, and that you've at least taken a moment to think about the contribution that Rev. Martin...

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January 13, 2007

Thinking About Evolution: Cognitive Factors That Get in the Way

Category: Cognitive Psychology

Originally posted on the old blog on 3/12/2006 My contribution to Darwin Day was pretty weak for a staunch supporter of science. Sure, I think the name is a bad idea, and want to rename it "Evolution Day," or at...

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January 11, 2007

Cognitive Scientist Wins $500,000 With Cognitive Science

Category: Miscellaneous

I meant to post this a long time ago, but forgot about it. Here's the story of a cognitive neuroscientist who, using what he's learned about cognition in grad school, won $500,000 on the show "Who Wants to Be a...

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January 8, 2007

Fun With Pie Charts

Category: Miscellaneous

Via Sandra over at OmniBrain, I learned about We Have Pie Charts, where just about everything you would never describe with a pie chart is described with a pie chart. Here are two of my favorites: A Day In the...

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January 5, 2007

The Book of Nature

Category: Philosophy

Here's an article from Physics Web (via 3 Quarks Daily) that seems appropriate, in the context of the last two posts. Here's the conclusion of the article: But the image of the book of nature can haunt us today. One...

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What Is Scientism?

Category: Philosophy

Comments on the last post make it clear that my use of the label "scientism" is far from clear. It does not mean a rejection of science, or its methods (though I do have to roll my eyes when someone...

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January 4, 2007

Where Rampant Scientism Takes You

Category: Philosophy

When science replaces religion, it becomes more and more like religion, and in the minds of its worshipers, can justify the same sorts of inhumanities. Witness Richard Dawkins, todays leading worshiper of science, calling for deposed dictators to be used...

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January 3, 2007

Robert Solomon

Category: Miscellaneous

I just learned, via Brian Leiter's blog, that Robert Solomon has died. I have been a big fan since I was an undergrad, especially because his book In the Spirit of Hegel helped me to break the "Hegel code" that...

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Edge.org to Scientists and Random Other People: What Are You Optimistic About?

Category: Miscellaneous

It's a new year, and that means it's time for Edge.org's annual silly question. This year, in addition to giving the question to scientists and philosophers, they also gave it to business people, and even Brian Eno. As in the...

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January 2, 2007

Welcome, Developing Intelligence!

Category: Blogs and Blogging

ScienceBlogs has added another brain sciences blog, Chris Chatham's Developing Intelligence. Welcome, Chris....

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January 1, 2007

Best Openings

Category: Miscellaneous

Regular cognitive science posting will resume in the very near future, but for the holiday, I thought I'd go with something a bit lighter. What's your favorite opening paragraph in a book? I've always liked the standards: Notes from the...

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