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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.
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Category: Video
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'...
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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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Category: Academia
Music & Life: An Alan Watts Animation by Trey Parker and Matt Stone...
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Category: Video
Homecast music video Brain Tamer by Peter Johnson.
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Category: Mental Health
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...
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Category: Psychology
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 ...?...
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Category: Neuroart
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.]...
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Category: Mental Health
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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Category: Philosophy of Science
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,...
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Category: Psychology
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...
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