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7 Questions with… Zen Faulkes
Posted by Jason G. Goldman on July 30, 2010 Here at Thoughtful Animal headquarters, we are conducting series of seven-question interviews with people who are doing or have done animal research of all kinds – biomedical, behavioral, cognitive, and so forth. Interested in how animal research is conducted, or why animal research is important? Think you might want to do some animal research of…
Aliens in our Midst
Posted by Jason G. Goldman on June 23, 2010 Well, sort of. Ready for the new SETI blog here at Scienceblogs? They launched today. I don’t know if we have to look to the skies to find aliens. We’ve got some pretty strange terrestrial life around here: (via @sfriedscientist of Southern Fried Science)
Who Moved My Garden? Spatial Learning in the Octopus
Posted by Jason G. Goldman on April 28, 2010 Say you’re visiting Los Angeles and you have a sudden craving for Chinese food. Since you are only visiting, you might not be aware that nothing is open past, like, 10pm (not even coffee houses), but you get in your rental car and go driving around in search of your Chinese feast anyway. You try…
Drive-Through or Eat Out? How An Octopus Decides
Posted by Jason G. Goldman on April 23, 2010 It’s amazing how much you can learn about an animal’s mind by a simply watching it. Video 1: Gratuitous video of octopuses never hurt anyone. Maybe this will sate the Pharyngulites.