Mind Hacks has an interesting bit on the personal side of BF Skinner, the primary proponent of a psychological school called behaviorism.
The NYTimes has an interesting article on synaesthesia, a syndrome where you percieve some sensations such as taste through other modalities. They also have an article on increasingly inappropriate dress among medical students, which I can tell you from personal experience is often true.
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Yesterday Huxley and I were out on the porch checking out the incoming thunderheads. Then we heard thunder. Huxley immediately ran over to the door and pulled it shut.
"We don't want thunder going in the house."
Good idea. Who knows what it would do in there.
This week, I've received three books which I'll be writing about in the near future:
Bora and Janet have done it, so why not.
I find it funny, somehow, that I learned it's National Poetry Month by reading ScienceBlogs. 'The web's largest conversation about science' seems a strange place to find contributions to a celebration of poetry, but maybe it's not.