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Encephalon #13 is up on Neurotopia. Lots of great stuff!

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The Synapse #13 is capably hosted at Neurocontrarian. Thanks Nick. I have a Synapse-related announcement. The Neurophilosopher, host of the other neuroscience carnival Encephalon, and I have noticed a decline in the number of posts coming into the carnivals. We have agreed that it would make…
The Synapse #13 is up on Neurocontrarian. Go take a look. This will be the last edition of The Synapse. The two neuro-carnivals are going to fuse into one, so in the future, only submit your entries to Encephalon.
Science Someone had to ask it. Why do squirrels masturbate? Obviously, it's a piece by Ed. Sentiment-sensing software could aid in weeding hostile online comments. If this comes to pass, I imagine most of Physioprof's comments will be weeded out, sadly. An important new study of mirror self-…
Here at Encephalon's temporary North Carolina headquarters, we were miffed to learn that our long-scheduled Keynote address has been upstaged by some upstart computer company's manufactured "event" in California. Not to be outdone, we're giving Encephalon an upgrade of our own. Encephalon is now…