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By developinginte… on July 15, 2010.

Swarming Quadrocopters?

Nanomagnetic remote control of animal behavior.

Blogs are data-mined for personality research.

Vote for method of the year! (My vote is for induced pluripotency)

If you think that the less competent you are, the more competent you think you are, then you are incompetent.Confusion on the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Time on task effects in fMRI research: why you should care.

Spontaneous Eyeblink Rate as an Index of Creativity.

The advantage of being helpless: infants can outperform adults in some ways.

Career Considerations: Center Grants and P-mechanisms from the NIH

Get up to date on functions of the insula.

A recap of Pinker's recent thoughts on the evolution of human intelligence.

Lies in Online Dating.

Understand probability. Wager. Profit.

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