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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
January 31, 2007
Category: Psychology
How do you know a mouse is tripping balls? It's not like you can show them crazy tapestries and play Pink Floyd and ask them how they feel.
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Category: Neuroscience
A team of researchers from UCLA has created a model of how the brain could potentially tell time and has also tested a part of the model on human subjects. "If you toss a pebble into a lake," he explained, "the ripples of water produced by the pebble's impact act...
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Category: Art
Ties with squids and their brains on them. sweeet.
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Category: Humor
I went to Memphis this past weekend seeking a scientific understanding of Graceland
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January 30, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
GW Pharmaceuticals has developed a diet drug derived from Marijuana which suppresses the appetite. This is especially surprising for obvious reasons - perhaps a little ironic?! Clearly the marijuana plant contains many many different compounds - but who would have thought that one of them suppressed the urge to...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 12:18 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
If you reject the Big Bang as being intelligent - after acknowledging that it created so many books and other works of art, it leaves you with no test for intelligence.
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Category: Policy & Politics
Women say pull out!
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January 29, 2007
Category: Biology
Lincoln seemed to have all sorts of problems - bipolar depression, unipolar depression, thyroid problems, bad gas, gargantuanism - you name it and someone has claimed he had it! But now it looks like, according to a study of worms, his nerves shattered? Abraham Lincoln may have suffered from a...
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Category: Vice
Check out the brains of mice on drugs. This site is a very strange one to say the least- it starts with a bunch of high mice in a club of sorts just struggling to stand up. Then the interactive flash demo starts in which you have to drag...
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January 28, 2007
Category: Academia
From Thom Parks: The American Chemical Society is rich ground for blogging. Scientific American has a piece about the American Chemical Society spending close to half a million of membership dollars hiring two lobbyists to defeat open access. PBS just aired a documentary about a journalist at the American Chemical...
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