December 30, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
A Product of Evolution is an online store which "provide[s] intelligent designs for free thinking truth seekers." The products, which include mens and women's T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, and mugs, are "inspired by...the natural beauty of evolution, science, truth and free...
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Category: Neuroscience
I've just found this Encyclopaedia of Computational Neuroscience on Scholarpedia. Each entry is written by an expert in the field, and is very comprehensive.The project seems to have been started only recently, as many of the entries I've looked at...
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December 29, 2007
Category: My photos
The mosque of Muhammed Ali, with its slender and elegant twin minarets, is one of Cairo's most prominent landmarks. It is visible in the two photographs of Cairo that I've already posted. Muhammed Ali was appointed as the Ottoman Viceroy...
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Category: Academia
The editors of the journal Neuron are now publishing readers' comments on the journal's website. Comments can be made online for any paper published in the journal, including all of those in the online back archive. Neuron is owned by...
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December 28, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
Professor Colin Blakemore (right), a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford who was formerly chief executive of the Medical Research Council (MRC), has been denied a knighthood "because of his outspoken support for animal research."This is not the first time...
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Category: Animal Behaviour
In this wonderful passage from King Solomon's Ring, Konrad Lorenz, who, together with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch founded the science of ethology, describes some of the behaviours of his pet capuchin monkey Gloria: She occupied a large, roomy...
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December 18, 2007
Category: Art
God's Eye View, which depicts four biblical events as if captured by Google Earth, is the work of The Glue Society, a collective of writers, designers and art/ film directors based in Sydney, Australia.Says Glue Society member James Dive:...
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Category: Neuroscience
Ed Yong has posted the 38th edition of Encephalon at Not Exactly Rocket Science. The carnival will return in a month, and the next host will be announced in due course....
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December 17, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
Photograph courtesy of the Exploratorium Jonah Lehrer* points out an exhibition of Paul Ekman's photographs at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Ekman is a psychologist at UCSF who has spent time in Papua New Guinea studying the facial expressions...
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December 15, 2007
Category: Egypt
Another view from the minaret....
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