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steveSteve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.


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April 30, 2007

Does your name dictate who you are?

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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Dandruff shampoo to calm seizures

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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Ok seriously - make up your mind about migraines!

Category: Biology

Now this week migraines are causing brain damage that potentially can lead to strokes.

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April 29, 2007

A graphical representation of blogs - Where are the science blogs?!

Category: Chatter

blogs blogs and more blogs

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April 27, 2007

Multimedia Friday | 04/27/2007

Category: Video

Braiinnnzzzzz... and a skull - video, pic, etc.

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April 26, 2007

The Slate on Brains

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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Visit the Exploratorium with Omni Brain!

Category: Academia

Cool events coming up, including "Mind"

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Fair, Unfair

Category: Academia

Retrospectacle and the EFF need help.

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April 25, 2007

You don't have to be smart to be rich (or go bankrupt afterwards)

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

Bark Bark Woof Woof boy am I happy to see you!

Category: Animals

A brand new discovery in doggy linguistics - Asymmetric tail-wagging.

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