Jason Goldman
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April 19, 2011
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
To start things off, Krystal D'Costa of Anthropology in Practice discusses the science of women's shoes.
Was the "Gay Caveman" really gay? Or even a caveman? Eric M. Johnson takes his blog tour to David Dobbs's Neuron Culture blog:…
April 18, 2011
The first two reviews (that I'm aware of) of this year's edition of Open Lab have surfaced!
First, USC ran a fantastic story on Open Lab and on my experiences with science blogging more generally. It was placed prominently (to my surprise) at the front page of the USC website for a week, and…
April 16, 2011
A couple weeks ago, I asked readers to offer up some science blogs written by women.
I wrote:
Throughout the month of March, The Smithsonian Channel aired all-new original programming, exploring the scientific contributions of five female scientists: Elisabeth Blackburn, JoGayle Howard, Nan Hauser…
April 14, 2011
I've been a bit remiss in posting much this week, mostly because I had to prep a guest lecture (from which I just returned, and it was awesome thankyouverymuch) on the Domestication of Social Cognition.
In the meantime, now that spring is here, baby animals are starting to pop up all over the LA…
April 12, 2011
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
Liberals Are Conflicted and Conservatives Are Afraid and Colin Firth is published in Current Biology. From the Neurocritic.
Despite what beer commercials tell you, not everyone responds to alcohol in the same way. The Science Life…
April 11, 2011
I'm working on putting together a resource sheet for various people (teachers, professors, graduate students, etc) that will help them find psychology-related resources on the web.
And I can use your help. To start with, I'm compiling as extensive a list as is reasonably possible of psychology and…
April 8, 2011
This newest addition to the Cincinnati Zoo, a female giraffe, was born last Saturday, April 2, 2011.
She's the first giraffe born at at the Cincinnati Zoo in 26 years. Head on over to their facebook page and suggest a name!
Oh, and did you know that giraffes can (sort of) swim? Check out Darren…
April 6, 2011
You know that old phrase, "monkey see, monkey do"? Well, there might be something to it, except that chimpanzees aren't monkeys. (Sadly, "ape see, ape do" just doesn't have the same ring to it.) A new paper published today in PLoS ONE has found evidence that chimpanzees have contagious yawning -…
April 5, 2011
Here are my Research Blogging Editors Selections for this week:
Is there a relationship between the taste of certain foods and moral decision-making? Maybe. At The Jury Room: Make them eat brussel sprouts.
In a somewhat related post, Dr. Stu of his eponymous blog asks if your music selection can…
April 4, 2011
Given the recent elephant hunting scandal, I thought I'd repost this award-winning piece from the archives, on a very clever way to deter elephants from raiding human settlements. Much cleverer than shooting them. (Click on the archives icon for the original.)
What information is contained in the…
April 2, 2011
I was reading Christie's excellent post (and you should too) on GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons' elephant killing incident (is it too early to be calling this #ElephantGate?)
Although I don't know quite enough about what is going on in Zimbabwe, I tend to err on the side of not intentionally killing…
April 1, 2011
Throughout the month of March, The Smithsonian Channel aired all-new original programming, exploring the scientific contributions of five female scientists: Elisabeth Blackburn, JoGayle Howard, Nan Hauser, Elisabeth Kalko, and Gudrun Pflueger. (I featured one of the programs, about Gudrun Pflueger…
March 31, 2011
Earlier this week, friend-of-the-blog and Open Lab 2010 finalist Stephen Curry tweeted this picture, with the caption "Reaching the next generation with #openlab"
This is why I do what I do.
March 30, 2011
...For a feature article in this week's Nature on how scientists go about developing and managing online personas. You can check out the article - for free - here. It's a good article, and you'll probably recognize some other familiar faces (e-faces? blog-faces?) in it as well.
While the interview…
March 29, 2011
In case you haven't procured your copy of Open Lab yet, you might consider taking advantage of a Lulu site-wide sale.
If you place an order by March 31, and enter the discount code SPLISH305, you can get 20% off, up to $100.
Here is a direct link to the hard copy version of Open Lab 2010 on Lulu,…
March 29, 2011
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
From Jon Brock at Cracking the Enigma: How do siblings influence theory of mind development in children with autism?
Did your gut bacteria make you read this post? From Mo at Neurophilosophy: Gut bacteria may influence thoughts and…
March 28, 2011
A new piece by me today at the Scientific American Guest Blog, on some exciting news from the Jane Goodall Institute and Duke University:
Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1960 - the same year that a US satellite snapped the first photo of the Earth from space, the same year that the CERN particle…
March 22, 2011
Many people have inquired as to whether there is or will be an e-reader version of Open Lab. The short answer is: yes. But because of various technological constraints, the only e-book format available is PDF, and its already available.
Since the link for the PDF download is not especially obvious…
March 22, 2011
I've got a new piece over at the Scientific American Guest Blog:
On Friday, March 11, Japan was rocked by an earthquake. People were displaced, a nuclear reactor was in trouble, and the world watched as a tsunami flooded Japan, threatened the islands of the Pacific, and ultimately hit the western…
March 22, 2011
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
Dr. Sharma asks, at his eponymous blog, what are the psychological effects of exercise on adolescents?
M&Ms as a strategy to overcome fear of dogs. No, really. Neurocritic has the details.
Doctor Zen writes, "We're smart.…
March 21, 2011
You kept submitting your posts all year long and watching, every Monday, to see which other posts were also entered.
Then we closed the submission form.
Then we made you wait a month of "electoral silence" while the judges went through three rounds of judging, until we announced which 50 essays,…
March 18, 2011
Via the Smithsonian Channel:
Gudrun Pflueger, first seen in A Woman Among Wolves, returns to wolf country after a grueling and terrifying bout with cancer.
Determined to fight for the wolves who gave her the strength to survive her illness, Pflueger battles freezing temperatures and personal…
March 15, 2011
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
What should you talk about on your first date if you want a second? Not films, apparently. Find some answers at the B Good Science Blog.
There is a period between "clinical death" and "brain death" called the "gap period," during…
March 15, 2011
Welcome to part 3 of the Science Blogging 101 series. You can find part 1 here, in which I discussed my own experiences with blogging, and part 2 here, which I discussed some of the big questions regarding audience, purpose, and so forth.
How do you balance blogging with the rest of your work?…
March 11, 2011
Watch this video and it might appear as if that beetle is being operated via remote control.
But wait. IT IS. The critter is a bit of a cyborg actually - part june bug, part computer. The man behind the zombie cyborg beetles is Michel Maharbiz, an associate professor in the Department of…
March 10, 2011
Welcome to the third installment of Animal Territoriality Week. See part 1 here, and part 2 here.
In 1994, a disease called sarcoptic mange swept through Bristol's fox population, severely crippling the population and killing most of the individuals. Professor Stephen Harris of the University of…
March 8, 2011
Welcome to the second installment of Animal Territoriality Week. Today, we'll look at a case where differences in territory size can have implications for neuroanatomy. If you missed part 1 of Animal Territoriality week, check it out here.
Let's say you have two very very closely related species.…
March 8, 2011
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week.
Embodied cognition never ceases to amaze and entertain. Mo Costandi of Neurophilosophy has the latest - Tough and tender: How touch affects sex categorization.
Emily Anthes of the Wonderland blog describes an interesting paper…
March 7, 2011
Welcome to Territoriality Week! Every day this week, I'll have a post about some aspect of animal or human territoriality. How do animals mark and control their territories? What determines the size or shape of an animal's territory? What can an animal's territory tell us about neuroanatomy? Today…
March 3, 2011
The narrator laureate of the science world, David Attenborough, describes the birth of a baby grey kangaroo.
Our friends at BBC Earth describe the video:
In this video a kangaroo is born, crawls up to its mother's pouch where a camera captures it's development from tiny, naked, grub-like newborn…