Steve 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.
OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
July 31, 2007
Category: Sex
According to David Bus: * Physical reasons such as to reduce stress ("It seemed like good exercise"), feel pleasure ("It's exciting"), improve or expand experiences ("I was curious about sex"), and the physical desirability of their partner ("The person was a good dancer"). * Goal-based reasons, including utilitarian or practical...
Posted by Steve Higgins at 10:06 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chatter
Omni Brain now has a Facebook group. Join us! I'm amiss in reporting recent IRL social news. There was a lovely dinner with SciBling Bora Zivkovic (who's creating a new online community at PLoS) at the sustainable foods Italian restaurant Incanto, in San Francisco. Then in Vancouver, Bjoern Brembs was...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video
I'm not sure how to feel about this video. Can someone inform me of the correct emotion? Thanks....
Posted by Steve Higgins at 5:58 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 30, 2007
Category: Culture Wars
His middle finger sits in glass in the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence, Italy.
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Category: Art
Something that is strangely like an fMRI machine... well with fire instead of magnets, bricks instead of plastic, and smoke instead of a computer analyzing brain images...ohh and instead of the brain images it gives direct insight into the semantic content of the brain.
Posted by Steve Higgins at 5:26 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroart
I feel like posting some silly brain pictures so here they are:...
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Category: History
There's an interesting article over at Neurophilosophy about ' the peculiarities of the Negro brain.' - Which of course don't exist ;) But in any case... I figured I would see what I could turn up in the NY Times before 1900. I didn't find anything that connected with the...
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Category: Books
Here's another interesting book from the "Review copies of books Steve gets in the mail from publication companies, like Prometheus Books, that love bloggers" series If you've read this book please let us know what you think in the comments section. Todays book is The (Fabulous) Fibonacci Numbers. Book Description:...
Posted by Steve Higgins at 5:39 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 29, 2007
Category: Humor
There's a great Flickr slide show with some brilliant LOL Philosophers right here. Here's one of my favorites: And a link to a few LOLScientists was brought to my attention recently. Check them out here....
Posted by Steve Higgins at 2:26 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2007
Category: Books
Here begins another new series at Omni Brain. This one is called, Review copies of books Steve gets in the mail from publication companies, like Prometheus Books, that love bloggers, Long enough title for you? I actually don't have time to read anywhere near all of these books so I'm...
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