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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
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February 29, 2008
Category: Technology
That is amazing: The basis of the 2x4-inch "Digital Tattoo Interface" is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It's inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:10 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Game Theory
Jay Cost at RCP uses a prisoner's dilemma game to show why the absense of institutional structures is likely to yield a socially inefficient result in the Democratic primaries. He looks at the super delegates' behavior in terms of what...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:01 AM • 0 Comments •
February 28, 2008
Category: Space
...literally: Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice. The Earth-on-moon violence may raise eyebrows, but NASA's history shows that such missions can yield extremely...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:23 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Language
Language Log details the results of this fascinating experiment. The researcher was looking at second language acquisition, and in order to have a control she tested the native-speakers on the gender of particular words in French. The assumption would be...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:11 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
We have all heard about the runner's high, and a great many of us have felt it. When you are running a marathon, about an hour or two in you feel a feeling of euphoria right like you could run...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:59 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Economics
This is just for Kara. A really common textbook for introductory economics classes is Greg Mankiw's. In the first chapter, he lists 10 principles of economics. This guy has translated them into terms lay people can understand. Heads up: people...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:47 AM • 1 Comments •
February 27, 2008
Category: Psychology
It has been a big month for talking about the demographic transition here at Pure Pedantry. (See here and here.) Ronald Bailey at Reason had this interesting article speculating why people choose to have less children: children don't make you...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:00 PM • 4 Comments •
February 26, 2008
Category: Neural interfaces
Doctors at the University of Navarra have implanted an auditory brainstem implant (ABI) in the youngest patient ever attempted -- a 13 month-old girl: A team of ear, nose and throat specialists and neurosurgeons at the University Hospital of Navarra,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:08 PM • 5 Comments •
February 25, 2008
Category: Space
Well, that's good. The military successfully shot down a satellite whose decaying orbit brought up concerns that it might crash into...you know...something besides water. It had about a half ton of a compound called hydrazine that is explosive and toxic....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:26 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Academia
Stanley Fish of the NYTimes Think Again blog has some interesting things to say about the appointment of Bruce Benson, oil magnate and Republican activist, to be president of the University of Colorado at Boulder. The appointment raised eyebrows and...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:14 PM • 4 Comments •
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