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steve_icon_medium.jpgThe 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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Why That Song's Stuck in Your Head

Category: Music

"Why do those holiday tunes get stuck in your head so much?" I was invited to pose this question to Dr. Robert Zatorre, Co-Director of the BRAMS: Brain Music and Sound lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University. Dr. Zatorre is a leading expert in neuroscience research...

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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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Science Blogging Survey

Category: Survey

We want your opinion! This survey attempts to access the opinions of bloggers, blog-readers, and non-blog folk in regards to the impact of blogs on the outside world. The authors of the survey (from ScienceBlogs.com) are completing an academic manuscript on the impact of science blogging and this survey...

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Becki Rides the Big One

Category: Popular Culture

Becki Rides the Big One is not pr0n, it's a fundraiser for brain tumour research.

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ACHOO

Category: Neuroscience

Mind Hacks recently held its first AAICS (Awkward Acronyms In Cognitive Science) competition, to find the most inventive and unwieldy brain-related acronyms. I submitted a few; there was Project CHOICES (Changing High-Risk AlcOhol Use and Increasing Contraception Effectiveness Study) [link], and ACTIVE (Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital...

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How to make a great movie

Category: Art

What makes a great film?

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Abstinence only sex education programs work!

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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Heavy Mental Music

Category: Art

In I-was-going-to-write-about-this-months-ago news, The Scientist magazine profiled The Amygdaloids: Scientists Who Rock Out: With a serious air about him, New York University neuroscientist Joe LeDoux takes hold of a microphone to introduce the first song, about "one of the great enigmas in the history of civilization" -- the mind-body...

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The Smell of Madness

Category: Psychiatry

Brad of Milligram wrote about a psychiatrist from olden days who claimed he could diagnose patients by their smell alone, and expressed scepticism (wouldn't you?), but there actually is some science behind it. Identification of schizophrenic patients by examination of body odor using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and a cross-selective...

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A New Chemical Weapon - The Gay Bomb?!

Category: Weird

The Military Development of a Gay Bomb.

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