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February 7, 2007
Can someone tell me if this site is for real?
Here's a demo:
Off topic
Heres is a not probable, but possible theory of future humans. Aliens are evolved Asian people. A colleague of mine stated that Asian people have bigger brains than others. This got me thinking and I was thinking of this for a…
February 7, 2007
Are you looking forward to the paper? You know you are.... an fMRI study of scene processing...
Almost through the review process...I'll post the abstract very very soon....you excited yet???
Ok... fine here's a sampler...
Humans and animals use information obtained from the local visual scene to…
February 7, 2007
Direct from the Horses Mouth:
NEURO-KINETIK NEURO-KINETIK NEURO-KINETIK NEURO-KINETIK NEURO-KINETIK
Parapsychology/"psychic research" is presently not having sufficient number of man hours devoted to it. Yet, this field of endeavor can be a significant part of mainstream science. Via a conceptual…
February 6, 2007
In association with Credentialix and our friend Brian, Omni Brain is offering online degrees!
IT'S YOUR FUTURE OF TOMORROW, TODAY!
In today's fast-paced society, it's hard to know what jobs you are or are not certified to perform. That's why I've come to tell you about a fantastic new online…
February 6, 2007
I'm proud to report that Ted Haggard is no longer gay since he underwent three whole weeks of very intensive counseling. He was so impressed with his counseling that him and his wife are going to attend university and get their masters degrees in psychology (I'm psyched he's joining me in my…
February 6, 2007
Via BoingBoing
What it's about:
BLOGUMENTARY playfully explores the many ways blogs are influencing our media, our politics, and our relationships. Personal political ... all » writing is the foundation of our democracy, but mass media has reduced us to passive consumers instead of active…
February 5, 2007
I'm sure you remember all the articles last week telling us how people with strokes causing damage to the insula have reported that they no longer feel the urge to smoke. In this weeks New York Times health section Sandra Blakeslee explores the insula in depth, examining both the possible…
February 5, 2007
Does this seem very outlandish? I can't imagine in a million years that someone at MIT would be denied tenure because of their race. Especially in todays P.C. academic environment. Does anyone in his field know what his qualifications were and whether he probably should have gotten tenure?
A…
February 5, 2007
It's always a shame when cool visual illusions are destroyed - especially historic ones :(
LAKE DELTON, Wis. - In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
After more than half a century of…
February 2, 2007
I'm really surprised when I run across something I've never ever heard about before. This is one of them.
BIID or body identity integrity disorder is when a person feels a compulsion to remove one or more body parts (arms, finger, legs, toes and I can't image what else). Below is a snippet from a…
February 2, 2007
Check out this site for the most common mispronounced words in the English language.
This of course if one of my favorites:
Old-timer's disease instead of Alzheimer's disease. While it is a disease of old-timers, it is named for the German neurologist, Dr. Alois Alzheimer.
I'm not really sure I've…
February 2, 2007
Watch as Max sneezes out his brain and tries to figure out what to do!
This cartoon is AWESOME :) I give it 4 astrocytes or something like that...
See more videos below the fold.
Here's one of the most pointless - poorly drawn - boring you tube videos I've ever seen! I love it!
It's a girl…
February 1, 2007
The Guardian has started publishing a column by Marc Abrahams who is editor of the bimonthly magazine Annals of Improbable Research and organiser of the Ig Nobel Prize. Check it out! The first article is called "Fizzy Logic" which covers the Coke vs. Pepsi debate. He also has a blog here.
Here's…
February 1, 2007
You're kidding me right?
Kabbalists have attained them all. But don't take Perceiving Reality's word for it... Test the method of Kabbalah upon yourself, and discover the higher states of consciousness for yourself.
But wait... it gets better - they prove their point by using a random dot…
January 31, 2007
Here's the basic story...
New work by a team of researchers has shed light on why hallucinogenic compounds cause altered states in creatures. It has long been known that hallucinogenic compounds have a high affinity for a certain receptor in the central nervous system (5-HT2A, or 2AR), and that…
January 31, 2007
A team of researchers from UCLA has created a model of how the brain could potentially tell time and has also tested a part of the model on human subjects.
"If you toss a pebble into a lake," he explained, "the ripples of water produced by the pebble's impact act like a signature of the pebble's…
January 31, 2007
Hah... if you haven't already - head on over to the NYT's for the new Tierney Lab Blog. He has an interesting post today about why people find Graceland so appealing.
I went to Memphis this past weekend seeking a scientific understanding of Graceland. I was there for a meeting of social…
January 30, 2007
GW Pharmaceuticals has developed a diet drug derived from Marijuana which suppresses the appetite. This is especially surprising for obvious reasons - perhaps a little ironic?!
Clearly the marijuana plant contains many many different compounds - but who would have thought that one of them…
January 30, 2007
Here's the main gist of his argument - I really wish this was a conversation in the cartoon though.
I suppose some of you will argue that the Big Bang started a natural series of events that led to a chance development of intelligent life. And then the life did all of the intelligent stuff. But…
January 29, 2007
Ahh.... anti-war protests in D.C. and the creative signage that goes along with it. Check out the rest of my friend Audrey's pictures :)
January 29, 2007
Lincoln seemed to have all sorts of problems - bipolar depression, unipolar depression, thyroid problems, bad gas, gargantuanism - you name it and someone has claimed he had it! But now it looks like, according to a study of worms, his nerves shattered?
Abraham Lincoln may have suffered from a…
January 28, 2007
Check out the brains of mice on drugs. This site is a very strange one to say the least- it starts with a bunch of high mice in a club of sorts just struggling to stand up. Then the interactive flash demo starts in which you have to drag a mouse into a comfy chair which transports it into a…
January 27, 2007
From Thom Parks:
The American Chemical Society is rich ground for blogging.
Scientific American has a piece about the American Chemical Society
spending close to half a million of membership dollars hiring two
lobbyists to defeat open access.
PBS just aired a documentary about a journalist at the…
January 27, 2007
Ok.. so perhaps it's not a total museum dedicated to homosexual animals - but it looks like a pretty good sized exhibit. Unless you're in Norway you might be missing the exhibit though. Anyone want to sneak some photos for us?
From male killer whales that ride the dorsal fin of another male to…
January 26, 2007
Here's a little Monty Python action about a brain surgeon.
D. P. Gumby - My Brain Hurts!
and a little P-Funk below the fold...
Parliament Funkadelic "Maggot Brain" 1978
January 26, 2007
Here's the truth so far...
- A WEB EXPERIMENT -
(In no particular order)
1. Cigarettes are bad for you.
2. Men and Women are equal.
3. Global Warming is real.
4. It's not all relative.
5. Intelligent Design is wrong.
6. Over consumption is a serious problem.
7. The Millenium Development Goals are…