I've been remiss...

...in not pointing out that one of my favorite blogs from the "old days" (as in four years ago) is back. The Second Sight, which closed up shop in 2007, reappeared a couple of months ago. It's as great as ever. Check it out.

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A novel temporal illusion, in which the cause of an event is perceived to occur after the event itself, provides some insight into the brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception.
Right now I'm about to, or already am, standing at a podium to give a talk at the
Bloggers have alarming stories of diseases reappearing:
my precious has returned from its mystery excursion

looks like a skeptic with a sense of humor. Thanks, Orac.

"Dr. Richard Dawkins, the foremost living evolutionary biologist, calls other species our evolutionary "cousins" and denounces what he calls "speciesist arrogance" -- the idea that we are better than, and can do whatever we want to other species"

http://huff.to/b11PsE