First recorded experiment? Daniel 1: 1-16
Category: Research
Clearly many problems with this study were missed in the peer review process.
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Now on ScienceBlogs: The Laboratory at Harvard
An exploration of the serious/fun/ridiculous - past/present/future of the brain and the science that loves it.
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.
OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Category: Research
Clearly many problems with this study were missed in the peer review process.
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Category: Culture Wars
Well... the Klingons and Furries finally got together and had battle... in a bowling alley. Here's some of the exciting (WEIRD) results: If this girl only knew... See the rest of the flickr set here. Via BoingBoing I wonder if any of the Furries went home with the Klingons? What...
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Category: Culture Wars
As seen on Mission Street, San Francisco. "God = Delusion" A Dawkins fan with a Sharpie?...
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Category: Drugs
Addiction, homelessness, and science vs. ideology.
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Category: Sex
...just kidding! It's nearly every month that a new study comes out showing that abstinence only programs don't do shit. This time a study from Oxford shows, through a meta-analysis of 13 different U.S. trials, that none of the abstinence-only programmes had an impact on the age at which individuals...
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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: 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: Video
Your brain on drugs spoof from Robot Chicken.
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Category: Video
Vintage mental health film The Empty Life.
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Category: Biology
There is a great article today on Slate about why the pretty ridiculous idea that vaccinations containing trace amounts of mercury cause autism will never go away. Here's the first little part of the article: At the recent 12-day hearing into theories that vaccines cause autism, the link between the...
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