Happy Holidays
Category: Blogs and Blogging
I hope everyone's having a nice holiday season. I'll be back to blogging next year....
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An entrée of Cognitive Science with an occasional side of whatever the hell else I want to talk about.
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December 30, 2007
Category: Blogs and Blogging
I hope everyone's having a nice holiday season. I'll be back to blogging next year....
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December 19, 2007
Category: Social Cognition
As I believe I've said before, if anything good has come from the Larry Summers debacle of a few years ago, it's that it inspired some really interesting research on gender differences in math. If you've been reading this blog...
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December 14, 2007
Category: Social Cognition
I've blogged about some great papers in the past, but today I'm blogging about the best... paper... ever. It's by Arina K. Bones, of the University of Darache in Monte Carlo, and Navin R. Johnson of Opti Corp, was published...
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December 11, 2007
Category: Politics
Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure most of you couldn't care less, but something about the idea of a presidential debate on science-related issues really bugs me, and I've been trying to figure out exactly what that...
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December 10, 2007
Category: Politics
If you haven't heard, fellow ScienceBloggers Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum of The Intersection have launched a movement called Sciencedebate 2008, in which they demand that the presidential candidates have a debate entirely on science and science-related issues. They've received...
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December 6, 2007
Category: Social Cognition
Recently, several social psychologists have posited a "Whodunit" system in the brain that's always looking to assign authorship -- either our own or somebody else's -- to actions. Most of the time, it's pretty easy to tell when we've done...
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Category: Blogs and Blogging
The reading group has been showing signs of activity, if not real activity, over the last few days, and I've also gotten a few emails recently suggesting that I start it back up again. So I thought I'd toss the...
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December 2, 2007
Category: Cognitive Linguistics
Via A. Ross Otto. And where do they get those actors?...
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