An entrée of Cognitive Science with an occasional side of whatever the hell else I want to talk about.
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April 25, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
In case you haven't heard about it already, fellow ScienceBlogger and neuroblogger Shelley has been threatened by lawyers for using images from a journal article in her blog posts. Now, I do this all the time (check two posts back),...
Posted by Chris at 2:31 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2007
Category: Philosophy
As Trinifar says, we're witnessing a great atheist schism. While there are actually several different types of atheists participating (I wonder if we're just playing into the hands of anti-atheist rhetoric by pretending we are, or should be, a homogenous...
Posted by Chris at 1:05 PM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2007
Category: Social Cognition
Have you ever read about a study, perhaps on this blog even, and thought to yourself, "Well those results are interesting in the lab, but they have absolutely no implications for life outside of the lab?" I remember quite clearly...
Posted by Chris at 4:00 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2007
Below is the text of a post I wrote for the old blog back in March of '06. I'm putting it here now because, given the discussion of the new atheist-suffragist analogy, I think it will provide some much needed...
Posted by Chris at 10:58 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is the way it always works. I quit the nouveau atheist blogs cold turkey, and their nonsense starts popping up elsewhere so that I can't escape it. That's how I learned that some of them are now comparing their...
Posted by Chris at 5:13 AM • 149 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
OK, this research is pretty silly, and quite frankly, I can't imagine what compelled the researchers to undertake it, but because it has to do with something I love, soccer, I feel compelled to blog about it. There this...
Posted by Chris at 2:34 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 19, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
I have to admit that I've been avoiding the "framing science" discussion that's been going on in the science blogosphere recently, mostly because I'd rather talk about what framing is and how it works than two author's rather vague ideas...
Posted by Chris at 9:16 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognitive Psychology
In the recent dust up over "framing science," there's been more hand waving than any actual discussion of, you know, framing. However, I was struck by one point that fellow ScienceBlogger Matt Nisbet, one of the authors of the Science...
Posted by Chris at 8:42 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 14, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
I recently made my third attempt at Finnegan's Wake, and as with the first two, failed miserably. At some point I'm going to decide, once and for all, that I will never be able to read that God forsaken book....
Posted by Chris at 9:08 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
Everyone should stop by and tell Richard of Philosophy, etcetera congratulations. He was accepted by pretty much every top analytical philosophy program in the U.S., and after a whirlwind tour of the states, has chosen Princeton. Richard's was one of...
Posted by Chris at 11:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Frame Analysis
As you all know, fellow ScienceBloggers Matt Nisbet and Chris Mooney published an article in the April 6 issue of Science on the topic of "framing science." The article has sparked a great deal of (sometimes heated) debate on ScienceBlogs...
Posted by Chris at 4:50 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 6, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
This is just plain cool....
Posted by Chris at 2:37 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 3, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
Sorry for the lack of posting lately. I've got some half-written posts that should be interesting, but between baseball 4 day a week, and an unhealthily large number of current research projects, I'm completely exhausted. So instead of finishing one...
Posted by Chris at 11:04 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
