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The Omnibrain 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, The Omnibrain is a real graduate student at a real school somewhere in the continental United States - or maybe Europe.
May 31, 2007
Category: Research
Do men buy porn because of Hot or Not? Is that even what the study examined? The Neurocritic has much to criticize in a recent article suggesting Hot or Not leads to buying Playboy....
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 3:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art morphing between each other. Pretty cool eh?! via boingboing...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 1:59 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Art
Blood splatter - pillows?
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 1:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 11:02 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Suicide is so not a laughing matter. No way. But if you're going to laugh, it surely would be at the Lego Suicides....
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 10:04 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mental Health
Slicing up and snorting lines of your own brain tissue and blood. Okay.
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 10:00 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychology
Teaching children to better use their working memory in early neurodevelopmental stages may improve their math skills. [The fact] that executive function, even in children this young, is significantly related to early math performance suggests that if we can improve executive function, we can improve their academic performance," says Adele...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2007
Category: Video
Watch a brain being kicked out of someones head.
Posted by The Omnibrain at 2:58 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animals
Psych tests for your cat!
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 11:34 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2007
Category: Psychiatry
A sex-crazed hockey cheerleader with bipolar disorder.
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 2:57 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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