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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.
Category: Parapsychology
When everyone thought extrasensory perception had disappeared into the same embarrassing past as phrenology it came back with a vengeance. In a recent article by Daryl Bem titled Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect evidence was presented that some have found very hard...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:34 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
I was digging through some of my old blog posts and had almost totally forgot about this artwork I commissioned for the blog when I first started back on blogger. Check it out and then I'll fill you in on what I've been up to and why I've been so...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 8:40 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
There's a great blog called ionpsych being run by Dan Simons (of Invisible Gorilla fame). The posts are all by graduate students in a science writing for public consumption class. I'm glad people are starting to teach us overly technical scientists how to communicate in graduate school. I'm not aware...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:10 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Just in case you're looking for something to write on your course evaluations. Or perhaps you are the instructor and you hope you don't get something like this (especially if you are young!) Via Texts From Last Night: I had to do a class evaluation today & the girl beside...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 8:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
-via toothpaste for dinner-...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:30 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Just be warned - there's a teensy (tinsy, teensie?) weensy bit of crude language. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor....
Posted by The Omnibrain at 9:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
I'm supposed to be editing a journal article for submission. It's been sitting on my desk for a long time. I've even finished the experiments for the follow up paper! I really need to stop looking at garbage on the internet - Including this comic defining my exact situation. Via...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 7:13 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain Toys
There are many brain fitness software products available these days so when I was offered a copy of Core Learning's program Mind Builder, I agreed to check it out. It offers a series of test questions similar to America's SAT, while Mind Builder Pro is a fuller package that...
Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Every one of us in acadaemia has had our fair share of blathering idiots come into our labs to work. I just wish I could write a letter like this. It's a shame that the letter is not actually going to go out. Ohhhh well.... check it out: Dear Admissions...
Posted by The Omnibrain at 11:29 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has gone to Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin J. Evans for inventing a technique called Gene Targeting. According to the NYTimes: The three scientists were honored for a technique called gene targeting, which lets scientists inactivate or modify particular genes in mice....
Posted by The Omnibrain at 10:05 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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