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MM Friday - Amygdaloids

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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The LOLPhilosophers

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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Philosopher Alan Watts : About Life (Southpark style)

Category: Academia

Music & Life: An Alan Watts Animation by Trey Parker and Matt Stone...

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Multimedia Friday 13/07/07 - Brain Tamer

Category: Video

Homecast music video Brain Tamer by Peter Johnson.

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Mental Health Indecision

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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Just the FACT

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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Multimedia Friday

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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Risk Factors

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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On Debating Pseudoscientists

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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Magic and Consciousness

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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