Galileo flipping off the Catholic Church from beyond the grave
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His middle finger sits in glass in the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence, Italy.
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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.
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July 30, 2007
Neato Old Illustrations : The ancient fMRI machine (of death!)
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.
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Funky silly brain pictures
Category: Neuroart
I feel like posting some silly brain pictures so here they are:...
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New Book: The (Fabulous) Fibonacci Numbers
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:...
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July 29, 2007
The LOLPhilosophers
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....
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July 28, 2007
New Book: Science and Ethics: Can Science Help Us Make Wise Moral Judgments?
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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July 27, 2007
Multimedia Friday | 07/27/2007
Category: Video
Your brain on drugs spoof from Robot Chicken.
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Panic! Smoking pot makes you psychotic!!!!
Category: Vice
Stop smoking pot immediately! You WILL go CRAZY!!! Panic! The study by Zammit and colleagues, published in the medical journal the Lancet, reanalyzed data from seven long-term studies on psychotic illnesses and marijuana involving 61,000 participants. The researchers filtered out about 60 factors, such as preexisting mental illness and the...
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July 25, 2007
Video Depth Illusion - Neato!
Category: Video
Cool video demonstrating a neato depth illusion with a tractor and mercedes.
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July 23, 2007
Steve's body is worth...
Category: Chatter
Ok ok... I'll do it too..... $4725.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth. From Mingle2 - Free Online DatingMingle2 - Free Online Dating...
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