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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.
October 31, 2007
Category: Food
Cookin' babies and their brains: How to Make a Bleeding Zombie Brain: Brains! Build your own goopy bloody gray-matter: Ohh my god! like... How-To Eat Halloween Brains! Beverly Hills style......
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Category: Food
Ahh Halloween - when neuroscientists find all sorts of fake brains for sale and recipes to create them. Here is the greatest brain recipe of all time:
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Category: Humor
Spoof documentary experiments with ghosts. Happy Halloween.
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October 29, 2007
Category: Video
Spooky ghost BBC mockumentary.
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October 26, 2007
Category: Webcomics
Dave Kellet jokes about a visual illusion the visual pop-out phenomenon, in his webcomic Sheldon. Click the cropped image to see the full comic strip. Thanks Dave! [Thanks, T.N. for the correction. Two blog posts about it here and here.]...
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Category: Popular Culture
In time for Halloween: Trailer for Central State: Asylum for the Insane. A filmmaker prowls a closed mental institution to "...uncover the mysteries left behind when the facilities closed in 1994." There's lots of shaky handheld camerawork in poorly lit tunnels, and shakier rumours of ghosts, but no exploration into...
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October 24, 2007
Category: Art
Pneumatic Anatomica by ~freeny on deviantART I really like how the hemispheres of the brain are forced to be especially separated by the physical structure of the balloon dog. I wonder if there are any behavioral implications? -via boingboing- and here's the original. The artist says this: Artist's Comments After...
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Category: Charity
Omni Brain met its fundraising goal of $1000 for music education programs through DonorsChoose. Thank you to everyone who's donated. You rock! Now 30 kids will too. But it'd be okay, you know, permissible (haha) to exceed our goal if you'd still like to help a Lisa Simpson. A...
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October 23, 2007
Category: Vision
Neato... -via Neatorama-...
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Category: Charity
You're seeing other ScienceBlogs readers donate, now join the love train*. A rare serious post from Steve explains The Real Mozart Effect and why we should support music education with DonorsChoose. Playing an instrument has cognitive and developmental benefits. That reason formed an episode of The Simpsons, too: Lisa's Sax....
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