Morphing Beauty
Category: Video
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art morphing between each other. Pretty cool eh?! via boingboing...
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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.
May 31, 2007
Category: Video
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art morphing between each other. Pretty cool eh?! via boingboing...
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Category: Animals
Heaven forbid animals drink some soda! and then enjoy it! This is probably the least bothersome form of animal testing out there. Trust me... animals looooove sugar! Here's the snippet from the NYT article: Under pressure from animal rights advocates, two soft drink giants, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have agreed to...
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May 30, 2007
Category: Video
Watch a brain being kicked out of someones head.
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May 29, 2007
Category: Parapsychology
Growing up I used to read Omni magazine and would always see all sorts of devices that supposedly could induce lucid dreams or tapes that had subliminal messages recorded along with Bach to create special brain states where you'd be particularly receptive to messages like - "you will be psychic......
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May 26, 2007
Category: Meta
Here's what PsyBlog has to say about Omni Brain: Best humorous (but still scientific) psychology blog The danger with mixing science and humour is slipping into the 'geek trap' where clever people try to be too clever. Omni Brain easily avoids this. Funky finger pictures on this post about sexual...
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May 25, 2007
Category: Video
Enjoy this great video where Dwight from The Office is trained with Pavlovian Classical Conditioning! Wasn't that great?!...
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May 24, 2007
Category: Psychiatry
Ahh silly research - gotta love it! SAN DIEGO -- Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader, suffers from a controversial mental condition and could use some couch time in a shrink's office, a team of researchers declared this week. "He's suffering. And he's suffering from a disorder," said Dr. Eric Bui,...
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May 23, 2007
Category: Psychology
Sometimes headlines really rub me the wrong way. This happens to be a consistent topic that always bugs me - finger length. It's interesting in that finger length is correlated with testosterone levels and that affects all sorts of cognitive abilities - but come on! Really?! Shouldn't they be...
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Category: Psychology
Ok... not really at home (Are they really suggesting in the picture that you can do it yourself?). There are now some relatively simple consumer devices on the market that will let your Psychiatrist wave his magic wand over your head, helping to alleviate your depressive symptoms in his office...
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May 22, 2007
Category: Psychology
Since the whole internet seems to be especially preoccupied with visual illusions in the last couple days, here's another one: If you don't see it ... start moving back from your monitor....
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