The Worst Yodeling Ever
Category: Video
Here's some entertainment from Big Bend. This is my friend Gary who has to be the worst yodeler - ever....
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March 30, 2007
Neuroblogroll
Category: Chatter
Two shiny new neuroblogs for your blogroll, launched in the last couple of weeks. Somatopsychic is from a behavioral neuroscience grad student in Missouri. "A blog about the biological basis for behavior, and how changes to biology effect changes in behavior." In some of the first posts, he talks...
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Multimedia Friday | 03/30/2007
Category: Video
Here's a music video that some students from a neuroscience lab made. Perhaps they should be given more work to do?!...
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March 29, 2007
Fodor vs. Dennett - Against Darwinism
Category: Philosophy
Battle between Daniel Dennett and Jerry Fodor on Darwinism (as it refers to psychological behavior).
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Touchy feely new age bullshit.
Category: Psychology
This type of new age crap bothers me a whole lot. There's always a whole lot of words and ideas but no content or real evidence. It bothers me even more when evidence is used that is so very distal to the actual point. Physics and vibrations?! you've got to...
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Flying spaghetti monster worshipping pirate gets suspended from school
Category: Culture Wars
I'll bet this foolish school district would also have a problem with a kid deciding they were Muslim and wearing a Burka to school. In all seriousness though I'm sure this kid did this just to be an obnoxious teenager and push some peoples buttons, but come on?! who is...
Posted by Steve Higgins at 9:30 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2007
Facebook guy is an ass and needs to go back to college
Category: Stupid People
It seems that college dropout of Facebook fame, Mark Zuckererg, may need to go back to college and take some psychology courses to learn something about aging and intelligence. According to VentureBeat, Zuckerberg told attendees at the Y Combinator Startup School event at Stanford this weekend that old people (you...
Posted by Steve Higgins at 1:51 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Toughness of Playboy Playmates
Category: Popular Culture
"analysis of centerfold[s]... for the past two decades suggests that it is a mistake to view Playboy Playmates exclusively through a lens of sexuality."
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Tough Problems
Category: Psychology
The Neurocritic wrote about a recent Nature paper on moral decisions and neuroethics, Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements (Koenigs et al., 2007). It's had a lot of attention, but maybe not so much for the details. The supplementary info includes the list of moral quandaries posed...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 11:33 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2007
Theme of the Day Three - Panda Porn
Category: Biology
It seems that perhaps pandas don't have mirror sex neurons or something? Chuang Chuang the panda has been spending his days in front of a big-screen television watching panda porn. Authorities at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand hope the images will encourage him to mate with his...
Posted by Steve Higgins at 3:05 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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