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This Friday is a holiday (in America, at least) and what's better on a holiday than a rerun? Yay for reruns. So, I've written about the Amygdaloids before, but here's an introduction video in case you didn't see it (or want to enjoy it again). Also, this band of rockin'...
Posted on November 23, 2007 10:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 on July 29, 2007 2:26 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Music & Life: An Alan Watts Animation by Trey Parker and Matt Stone...
Posted on July 23, 2007 11:17 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Homecast music video Brain Tamer by Peter Johnson.
Posted on July 13, 2007 12:08 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
The Onion strikes at neuroethics and the slow legal system. "If it were just us sitting around having a few beers and shooting the breeze, it would have been, like, yeah, sure, execute the mentally ill, they should have known what they had coming to them that far into...
Posted on May 29, 2007 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Endel Tulving wrote this FACT, referring to 'The First Axiom of Consciousness and Thought' - 'If a thing is not alive, it cannot be conscious, nor can it think.' Read more, including criticism (sorta). Do you agree, or ...?...
Posted on May 22, 2007 10:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Neurocritic imagines the hypothesis of overuse in Alzheimer's and finds Austin Houldsworth's Past and Future Self at the Perpetual Art Machine, illustrating an entirely other relevant point. [Click image to view video.]...
Posted on May 11, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
If video games aren't to blame for the shooting, maybe it was Nietzsche! Looking for something (or someone) to blame? Here's the FBI's (laughable) take on profiling school shooters. One method for discovering potentially violent students involves having students write about their lives as a window into their thoughts....
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Posted on April 18, 2007 8:00 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy writes eloquently on debating pseudoscientists: Debunking fringe theories is usually not trivial. For example, Richard Hoagland has been making his (mistaken) claims about Mars for literally decades. The breadth and depth of his claims is astonishing! It would take forever to debunk everything he says,...
Posted on April 4, 2007 11:24 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Assn for the Scientific Study of Consciousness announced their 2007 conference, June 22-25. It's being held at the Imperial Palace hotel on the Las Vegas strip, and features a special symposium on The Magic of Consciousness with five top magicians performing and discussing their trade. Just as visual...
Posted on April 4, 2007 7:30 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
