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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.
April 30, 2007
Category: Psychology
If you believe that a name can have an impact on how people treat you, your future career and if you also like math you should name your daughter (or change your name) to something further down this list: Isabella 1.21 Anna 1.04 Elizabeth 1.02 Emma 0.97 Jessica 0.93 Samantha...
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Category: Neuroscience
Clearly, washing your hair isn't going to have any effect since I highly doubt that your Head and Shoulders is going to sink through your scalp, through bone, through your meninges and then go straight to the source of your seizures. But hey! If you can get your local neurosurgeon...
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Category: Biology
Now this week migraines are causing brain damage that potentially can lead to strokes.
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April 27, 2007
Category: Video
Braiinnnzzzzz... and a skull - video, pic, etc.
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April 26, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
It looks like Slate, over the next few days, is going to have a series of articles on some yummy looking neuroscience! Here's a few details: Welcome to "Brains!", Slate's special issue on mind science and the state of neuro-culture. Over the next few days, we'll present a series of...
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April 25, 2007
Category: Psychology
Overall people with higher IQ's tend to earn a bit more income (1 IQ pt. = $202-$616 more per year) but when you factor in total wealth (I believe that how much bling you have was the measure) and how likely people were to have financial difficulties the correlations fell...
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April 24, 2007
Category: Animals
A brand new discovery in doggy linguistics - Asymmetric tail-wagging.
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April 20, 2007
Category: Psychology
A list of the top most satisfying jobs was just released by the General Social Survey (GSS) at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. It seems that Psychologists have made it into the top ten - although I don't think they're talking about my field of...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:52 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
Freaking hilarious! Nothing to do with the brain though - ohh well. Don't play this out loud at work - it's a bit potty mouthed. (Sorry for the autostart - I can't figure out how to not let it automatically start). And if you have thoughts about which dirty words...
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April 19, 2007
Category: Chatter
Does anyone have any suggestions for tomorrows Multimedia Friday? It can be reader request day or something like that ;) And in thanks for your input I leave you with this completely unconfirmed set of results from a website reporting about a publication on nose picking: * 8.7% claim that...
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