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Set Your Watch

This image came out a couple months ago in Nature, but I just came across it today. I quite like the way it sums up the history of life--something that's maddening hard to do, since the time scales are so vast. It shows how life's diversity has been accumulating for billions of years. This chart shows the timing of the earliest paeolontological evidence for different kinds of life, ranging from fossils to chemical markers. A few definitions may help. Phototrophic bacteria can harness sunlight to grow. Cyanobacteria are also known as blue-green algae (aka pond scum). Eukaryotes are species…

Looking forward and glancing back

I didn't really have time to blog anything today, primarily because I was preparing a talk on the Cambrian explosion that I am giving tonight. The weekend will likely be quiet as well, as I need to finish preparations for the new semester which starts on Tuesday. So, for those of you who are perhaps new to stranger fruit, here's a list of some of my favorite old posts to keep you amused until I write something new. Revisiting Rivista A Sermon on Sermonti Testable ID? Close but no cigar? "Methodological naturalism does not yield answers" Peer Review and ID A man for this season ⦠research…

Wikipedia of Life?

My latest story for the New York Times is up: it's a sneak peek at the Encyclopedia of Life--a web site that will ultimately contain detailed pages about all 1.8 million known species. Right now it's just a demo site, but on Thursday, there will be thousands of pages up, each with details on a different species. Will it reach its goal? As I point out in the article, previous attempts have failed. Their remnants are littered across the Web, such as the All-Species Foundation. But the scientists behind the Encyclopedia of Life have a lot of tools, like wikis and text-mining, that their…

SchadenFriday Early Edition: John McCain screws the pooch. Hard.

Looks like the Straight Talk Express took a detour through Dependswhatyoumeanby"is"ville. From the NYT: Mr. Black said Mr. McCain and Ms. Iseman were friends and nothing more. But in 1999 she began showing up so frequently in his offices and at campaign events that staff members took notice. One recalled asking, "Why is she always around?" That February, Mr. McCain and Ms. Iseman attended a small fund-raising dinner with several clients at the Miami-area home of a cruise-line executive and then flew back to Washington along with a campaign aide on the corporate jet of one of her clients,…

Shocker: Smoking ain't good for the kids

A recent study of 20,000 children confirmed that smoking just isn't good for kids. I don't know why this should come as a surprise to anybody, but I thought I should post it just in case.... The effects of smoking during pregnancy last up to age 12, while exposure to cigarette smoking after birth further worsens lung function, Dr. Manfred A. Neuberger of the Medical University in Vienna, one of the study's authors, told Reuters Health. It is difficult to tell, Neuberger noted, whether the impairment of lung function resulting from prenatal and early life exposure is permanent, given that…

FOXNews Producer Caught Rallying Tea-Bagger Protest

Fair and balanced ain't what it used to. The Huffington Post has published video of FOXNews producer Heidi Noonan encouraging protesters at the 9/12 event to be loud and boisterous while Griff Jenkins "reported" on their outrage. Noonan is seen motioning to the crowd periodically while speaking to an unknown individual on her cell phone. At one point she attempts to hide from the camera that has her in the shot. Here is the video released at HuffPo: Now here is the "objective" reporting that viewers at home saw (via Media Matters): Notice how Jenkins and Beck both claim that this…

Flu update

It's been a slow flu season this year---until now. In the last week I've seen people dragging themselves into the office looking like absolute hell---fevers, cough, severe muscle aches---in other words, they've got the flu. The latest CDC data shows a marked increase in flu activity. A large percentage of isolates are influenza A, type H1N1, which is currently resistant to one of our antiviral medications oseltamivir (Tamiflu). Of 110 influenza isolates collected so far in Michigan this season, 74 are A(H1N1). The strain is still susceptible to zanamivir (Relenza), rimantadine, and…

SCIENCE FOR OBAMA

Barack Obama's achievement of the American presidency is significant for an endless litany of reasons, but here's a few more. The lives that will be saved due to his support of stem cell research. All those ideological, anti-science Bush cronies that are going to be booted off scientific advisory boards. The as-yet-unknown discoveries that will come from his promised investments in basic science research. The school kids that are going to get a huge boost in STEM education. No more wildly upsetting dismissals of science in policy speeches. No more censorship of climate change research. A…

Dan's Moral Dilemma

Dan from Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics has a problem: I'm working in a fairly esoteric field in which there are very few existing academic papers (because it's a highly politically charged topic, I've decided not to discuss it here until I have at least have all the data before me). One of the papers was co-authored by John Lott. I'm seriously queasy about citing Lott, given his spectacularly unprofessional behavior in the past surrounding "More Guns, Less Crime" and the Mary Rosh fiasco. So, the question is: do I cite Lott, cite Lott with a…

What's new in Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rico Physiological Society held their 6th annual meeting at the University of Puerto Rico this past Friday February 12th. The theme of the meeting was "Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Stress: From Cells to Organisms." While the meeting did not feature much of what would be considered comparative physiology, there were several really good talks on how different forms of stress impact physiology. This year's American Physiological Society lecture was given by Dr. Ajit Varki who spoke about the role of so-called "siglecs" in both aging and inflammation. According to his biography on…

Don't forget the veteran dolphins

In honor of Veteran's Day, we must not forget to thank the dolphins (and more recently sea lions) that have been active members of the US Military. The US military used dolphins trained to find and disarm underwater mines in the Iraq War. Eight dolphins served as the first marine mammals in active combat as part of the "Special Clearance Team One." The dolphins worked alongside drones equipped with sonar, Navy SEALS, reconnaissance swimmers from the Marine Corps, and divers trained to disarm explosives. When the drones detected something suspicious, the dolphins were able to discern whether…

An insect with functional gears on hind legs

Image of young planthopper by study author Malcolm Burrows. Scientists have discovered what they believe is the first example of interacting gears in young planthopper insects, Issus coleoptratus. The gears are on the upper portion of the insect's rear legs and help ensure the legs work in unison when the insect jumps. These gears are lost as the animal ages and are thus rather like training gears. Image of functional gears on the hind limb of a plant-hopping insect from study author Dr. Malcolm Burrows. Dr. Malcom Burrows (Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at the University of…

Why chimps eat seemingly strange food

Image Credit: Animal Planet Researchers have discovered that the reason chimpanzees eat certain foods may have nothing to do with having a sophisticated palate, but rather, the animals appear to be self-medicating. I suppose if you were a chimpanzee it would be difficult to find a doctor to treat your most recent parasitic infection. The ability to know what foods to eat for specific medicinal benefits may be a learned behavior. Other animals are known to self-medicate as well, but chimpanzees and humans are the most notorious. Personally, I like to self-medicate with chocolate...and coffee…

SETI Gurls (Video)

Every summer, the SETI Institute hosts 15-20 college students from around the country as part of its Astrobiology Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) internship program. The program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and the NASA Astrobiology Institute, pairs each student with a research mentor at the SETI Institute. At the end of the 10-week internship, each student presents a talk and written report on their research project, and many students go on to present their work at professional conferences during the following academic year. This year, our 19 REU interns…

Dinosaur eggs in Tamilnadu

Loads of them reports the Beebs. Quite a remarkable find and it seems already some information has been gleaned of their past. "The leader of the team, MU Ramkumar, told the BBC the finding is significant and could help to unravel the mystery about the extinction of dinosaurs. The important finding is that these eggs have been found in different layers that means the dinosaurs came to the place over and over year after year," he said. "The second important thing is that we have got volcanic ash deposits on the eggs which suggests that volcanic activity could have caused their extinction. "The…

Legislation against women wearing burka in public

The French president has spoken in favor of Legislation against women wearing burka in public recently. I agree with the assessment that burka is a symbol of servitude. When women wear it for cultural and religious reasons, they are, as Sarkozy says, prisoners behind netting, cut off from all social life, deprived of identity. But, what if some women like to wear burka for reasons they choose independantly for themselves? Replace Burka with Hoodies or some other striking dress code and you'll see what I mean. Why should their act be banned in public, just because the majority does not like it…

We used to own our slaves but now we just rent them

From The Independent: Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, they dashed for freedom. When they found sanctuary one recent Sunday morning, all bore the marks of heavy beatings to the head and body. One of the pickers had a nasty, untreated knife wound on his arm. Police would learn later that another man had his hands chained behind his back every night to prevent him escaping, leaving his wrists…

DIY Week

The past week has been one long workout. Over the course of the week, I've wrestled with instruments of great power: two electric saws (one light weight, one heavy duty), sander, drill, and a few others for whom I haven't yet worked out what their purpose is. Along the way I have learnt plastering techniques, sanding, using a plumbline (just hang it from above, and don't breath hard on it), wallpapering around an unreacheable corner (you don't do it), floorboarding, and more. We could've hired someone to do it, but the opportunity to learn and sort out things for yourself is hard to let go…

The meaning of the phrase "it turns out"

I was listening to The Salmon of Doubt, the posthumously published book with material collected from the computer used by Douglas Adams. Douglas Adams: what a brilliant, witty and fabulously engaging man! His sharp and hilarious analysis of the phrase "it turns out" is a great Adamsian moment: "..am I alone in finding the expression 'it turns out' to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It's great. It's hugely…

With Shit-knife in belt, he disappeared into the arctic wilderness

Wade Davis, National Geographic explorer, gives a talk on ethonsphere and the perils facing cultural diversity in this increasingly monocultural world. He ends his talk with the narration of an Innuit grandfather: The Innuit family were being resettled by the Canadian government from their icy land; the grandfather refused to leave. The family fears that he would kill himself and takes away all his weapons and the sled. Wade describes what followed: ..he pulled down his sealskin trousers, defecated into his hand, as the feces froze he shaped it into a knife, butchered a dog with the knife,…

Gary Kleck Interview: 2.5 million defensive uses.

Alfred A. Hambidge, Jr. said: For the benefit of those trying to follow this thread, could you post the NCS questions in question? There are 20 screening questions. I'm not going to type them all in -- the following are just the ones that relate to to assault and robbery. (37) Did anyone take something directly from you by using force, such as by a stickup, mugging or threat? (38) Did anyone TRY to rob you by using force or threatening to harm you? (39) Did anyone beat you up, attack you or hit you with something, such as a rock or a bottle? (40) Were you knifed, shot at, or attacked with…

Independence day

Today is India's Independence day. I was born long after that day. Because my people had the courage and fortitude, I was born in a society that was free. I was born in a society that controlled its own destiny. Freedom is the breath of a society. It is the heartbeat of a country. Freedom is life. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of…

Ozzy Osbourne. Now genomics is getting somewhere.

Ozzy Osbourne, preparing to grasp the meaning of his genome. There's been much attention lately to the failure of genomics advances to create many medical advances. From rock'n'roll comes  hope. THE mystery of why Ozzy Osbourne is still alive after decades of drug and alcohol abuse may finally be solved. The 61-year-old former Black Sabbath lead singer â who this week begins his health advice column in The Sunday Times Magazine â is to become one of only a few people in the world to have his full genome sequenced. In addition to giving Osbourne information that could help prevent…

Rice, alcohol, and really fast evolution in humans

In my "Atlantic article on the genetic roots of stable-versus-reactive temperaments, I noted that the key gene variants linked to these traits appeared to have developed over only the last 50,000-100,000 years -- a short time in evolutionary time. That same idea is developed in Cochran and Harpending's "The 10,000-year Explosion." Here Razib at Gene Expression looks at polymorphisms that have developed over the last 10,000 years in response to agriculture. Changes in human diet driven by cultural evolution seem to be at the root of many relatively recently emerged patterns of genetic…

Quick dip: Bonobo teeth, flu vaccines, death-of-midlist 3.0, death of the uninsured, and gory films

Eric Michael Johnson contemplates the hearts, minds, teeth, and claws of bonobos and other primates. Tara Smith explains why she'll be getting her kids their (seasonal) flu vaccines. Revere does likewise Daniel Menaker, former honcho at Random House, defends the midlist. (Where was he when my book was getting so much push?) Just in case you missed it, lack of insurance is killing 45,000 people a year (Times) in the U.S. This doesn't include preventable deaths among the underinsured (like yours truly, who is sitting on some surgery that he'd rather put behind him). You can download the…

Do some science! A v quick survey on genetics of mental health

For research she's doing about public attitudes on genetics and mental health, science writer Virginia Hughes is trying to get people to take a very short survey (I just took it; takes about 30 seconds) on that subject. Do mental health issues rise from genes, environment, or both? Would you get a child tested for a gene said to confer a certain level of risk for, say, autism? Questions like that. She'll use the results to inform her writing and her participation in a panel on ethical questions about the genomics of psych conditions at an upcoming conference at Cold Spring Harbor. It's quick…

Alarming climate change chart of the day

Paul Krugman tunes out the noise: Temperature is a noisy time series, so if you pick and choose your dates over a short time span you can usually make whatever case you want. That's why you need to look at longer trends and do some statistical analysis. But I thought that it would be a good thing to look at the data myself. So here's the average annual global temperature since 1880, shown as .01 degrees C deviation from the 1951-80 average. What this tells me is that annual temperature is indeed noisy: there have been many large fluctuations, indeed much larger than the up-and-down in the…

Is a flying carpet possible?

The answer is a resounding sorta. Scientists at Harvard have done that calculations and found that "the aerodynamics of a flexible, rippling sheet moving through a fluid" ... should make it "possible to make one that will stay aloft in air." However, No such carpet is going to ferry people around, though. The researchers say that to stay afloat in air, a sheet measuring about 10 centimetres long and 0.1 millimetres thick would need to vibrate at about 10 hertz with an amplitude of about 0.25 millimetres. Making a heavier carpet 'fly' is not forbidden by the laws of physics. But the…

Old people don't have a sense of humor

Ok ok... they do have a sense of humor but... age related cognitive decline has led to many older adults not getting 'the joke'. In a study by Wingyun Mak and Brian Carpenter, Ph.D. , of Washington University they discovered that Humor comprehension in older adults functions in a different fashion than humor comprehension in younger adults. The researchers studied older adults from a university subject pool as well as undergraduate students. The subjects participated in tests that indicated their ability to complete jokes accurately as well as tests that indicated their cognitive…

Orangutans playing video games

This story is almost useless without video - which Is why I'm posting it. Can anyone get a video of an Orangutan playing a video game? In any case... Here's the basic story: In one game, orangutans choose identical photographs or match orangutan sounds with photos of the animals -- correct answers are rewarded with food pellets. Another game lets them draw pictures by moving their hands and other body parts around the screen. Printouts of their masterpieces are on display in the zoo. The computer games, which volunteers from IBM spent nearly 500 hours developing, test the animals' memory,…

SIZZLE TUESDAY: July 15!

I spoke with my sometimes co-blogger Randy Olson this morning. He's up to his neck in Sizzle hustling (though he did have time last week to host a dinner with Carl Zimmer, Chris Mooney and friends as Carl was in L.A. promoting his new book). The Sizzle folks have come up with a rather novel idea which will play out here on ScienceBlogs in a couple weeks. They put out an invitation to Science Bloggers to review the movie, got 40 replies, added on a few major environmental bloggers, and now have over 50 bloggers who will all be posting their reviews of the movie on SIZZLE TUESDAY, July 15.…

Harmful Algae Likes It Hot, Hot

This is the title of a new song out from Chris Brown. Just kidding. But it is the topic of an article in Science this week. Harmful algae blooms, as the name suggests, are harmful. They can kill fish and produce toxins, which can cause serious and occasionally fatal human diseases. Nutrient overenrichment of waters by urban, agricultural, and industrial development are most often seen as the culprits behind these blooms but rising temperatures also seem to facilitate the rise of slime. Rising temperatures favor cyanobacteria [harmful algae] in several ways. Cyanobacteria generally grow…

Good News for Acoustic Feeders: Courts Rule Against Sonar

As the result of a NRDC lawsuit, a federal judge yesterday ordered the Navy to adopt measures for protecting marine mammals during midfrequency sonar exercises off San Diego County and other parts of Southern California. I wrote about the previous decision to overturn lowfrequency sonar use by the Navy in The Skeptic in 2004 in an article titled Sonar Ban Sounded Good. Pursuing a ban on midfrequency sonar is certainly a step up from pursuing a ban on lowfrequency--almost every navy boat in the world has midfrequency sonar and uses it regularly. The ban is great news for acoustic feeders off…

Gore: Ate Bass, Looks Like an Ass

Al Gore's daughter got married last week and apparently the event was so sacred it called for eating one of the world's most endangered fish: Chilean sea bass (which is not actually a 'bass'). Now Gore is justifiably under scrutiny by the media and charged with eco-hypocrisy. The D.C.-based National Environmental Trust launched the Take a Pass on Chilean Sea Bass campaign in 2002. Maybe Gore was still busy treating the wounds after the ill-fated 2000 campaign, but really: how can someone so in tune to the problem of global warming be so in the dark about Chilean sea bass? Even Randy I'm-…

Sustainable Seafood: Things Should Stay the Same

This week I am part of a sustainable seafood panel at Cultivating Appetites for Knowledge, the International Food Conference at the University of Victoria. Mark Powell wrote about the very topic of sustainable seafood last week over at blogfish. Daniel Pauly, a genius (as in: any fool can make things complicated, it takes a genius to make them simple), says that sustainability relies on only one premise: things stay the same. Therefore, bottom trawling is inherently unsustainable because it erodes the very habitat upon which fish extracted from it depend. Shrimp trawling is also…

Don't forget to vote in the 3QD Science Blogging Prize!

There are still two days of voting left - so go forth and vote! Even a few votes might make the difference between a post making the cut and falling behind. Here's the full list of entires. There are a ton of great ones - you should read them all! But, I'd be lying if I said I didn't want you to vote for one of the three from this blog (see below). The last one - Why Do Women Cry - is my personal favorite, but of course vote how you wish! The voting closes Wednesday at 11:59pm eastern time, so whether you vote for me or vote for another post, vote soon! How Do You ID a Dead Osama Anyway?…

Hosting Tar Heel Tavern

Are you a North Carolina blogger of any sort? Have you ever lived in North Carolina? C'mon, I know many, many science folks who at one time did their training in the Old North State. Well, after hosting Tar Heel Tavern at my old blog in the Spring, I thought it would be a good idea to help out Erin and Bora and host THT #87 right here in my relatively new digs. I have no theme - the only requirement is that you write from or about North Carolina. As I said above, expats are welcome (Derek Lowe, I'm talking to you!) THT is a loosely launched weekend thing, so it would help me if you would…

The Good Doctor would have been 69...

While we're on the topic of death and acknowledging that 70-ish is a life well-lived, I'd note that experimental pharmacologist and legendary gonzo journalist, Dr Hunter S Thompson, would have been 69 yesterday. His widow, Anita, keeps a blog at their fortified Owl Farm estate and posted this loving tribute to The Good Doctor yesterday. Although we were live-blogging from Aspen last week, we're certainly not the kind of folks to go poking around in Mrs Thompson's business up Woody Creek Road - plus, I really do fear the remaining explosives, especially with a 4-year-old running wild and…

links for 2008-07-21

The Darwin Diet | Science | guardian.co.uk I'm not sure I'd try any of those diets out, but I'm not a fan of Atkins, either. The rise of the urban shepherd | Society | The Guardian At least one municipality in the UK is turning to sheep to help with park upkeep (but watch your step in the meadows). I'd love to see this kind of thing happen in the US. New York might not be the best starting point, though. Those squirrels are pretty t KHNL NBC 8 Honolulu Hawaii |California container fee could hurt Hawaii consumers A move by California to tax incoming shipping containers as part of an…

When I Was Young, We Had To Compute Uphill, In The Snow....

Didn't you get something like this from your parents when you were younger? "You kids don't know how easy you have it. When I was young, I had to walk to school! In the snow! Uphill! Both ways!" Well, a bunch of us Sciencebloggers recently got to reminiscing about the good ol' days, when we were young, and computers were in their infancy, and we had to walk to school uphill both ways just to get our punch cards. And if you don't know what a punch card is, three whacks with a slide rule for you! And if you don't know what a slide rule is...ahhh...just go read all our little stories…

Ooh, cool!

"Few topics have engaged biologists and philosophers more than the concept of species, and arguably no idea is more important for evolutionary science. John S. Wilkins' book combines meticulous historical and philosophical analysis and thus provides new insights on the development of this most enduring of subjects."—Joel Cracraft, American Museum of Natural History "This is not the potted history that one usually finds in texts and review articles. It is a fresh look at the history of a field central to biology, but one whose centrality has changed in scope over the centuries. Wilkins' book…

Which SF writer are you?

If I had a category for "If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?" this would be in it. The Sciblings are doing it, so I must. I am: Gregory Benford A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist. Which science fiction writer are you? It's oddly apposite. Benford is one of my favourite SF writers, the only real practitioner of what I call SF these days. I grew up with Asimov, Clarke, and the oldies. My first novel read, at age 8, was Brave New World, followed by First and Last Men, and thereafter I was hooked. I read Amazing Stories, and waited breathlessly for…

IPCC error rate: You were expecting something else?

Via the ever-vigilant Stoat, I draw your attention to a letter to the Netherlands parliament from by 55 Netherlands scientists. Along with the usual "the science remains sound" defense of our understanding of anthropogenic global warming, it provides some useful perspective: The writing of IPCC reports and its quality control remains the work of humans. A guarantee for an error free report is an unachievable ideal, however much an error free report is highly desired Just as a thousand private emails are bound to include a few intemperate remarks and elucidation of wishful thinking, the…

Cambrian fossils at Kangaroo Island

Kangaroo Island is a largish island off the coast of South Australia, famous for its wildlife and food. It also has some of the best preserved Ediacaran Cambrian fossils, on a par with the famous Burgess Shale. A report on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV show Catalyst recently showcased these, and interviewed my friend Chris Nedin as well as his colleagues Jim Gehling and Diego Garcia. Chris is the guy shown on the preview of the video. You can view the report on video, or read the transcript, courtesy of the ABC. Here's a pic of Nedin showing us where the Ediacaran period…

Feedback now has to be authenticated

The snivelling little boy, Mats Envall, who thinks that walking into someone's living room and pissing on the floor is acceptable behaviour, has forced me to make comments require my manual authentication. I am sorry for the rest of you, but we are up to 122 spams from the idiot. Those who routinely comment I can mark as authenticated in general using IP numbers, so that might take the sting off it. So far we have been relatively civilised here - I'm sorry that this troll has made things less pleasant for you all. I bet this is how Envall got his paper published, by effectively bullying…

Maybe it's like a lottery

Mary MacKillop has been officially canonized as an Australian saint on the basis of two purported miracle cures — two women reportedly dying of cancer had spontaneous remissions after praying to her. Adele Horin puts them in context. At the time Mary MacKillop answered the prayers of a woman dying of leukaemia, there was a lot of static in the air. In China 43 million people were dying of starvation in one of the world's worst famines. Thirty years later in the 1990s, when MacKillop answered the prayers of a woman dying of lung cancer, 3.8 million were dying in the Congo wars, 800,000 in…

Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for January 21, 2007

Here's the Cognitive Daily weekly podcast for January 21. Don't forget that you can subscribe to the podcast using the special RSS feed: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/rss-podcasts.xml To subscribe using iTunes, select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu, then paste or type in the URL. To access the podcast directly, click on the links below: Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for January 21, 2007 (AAC version) Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for January 21, 2007 (MP3 version) Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast provides audio versions of each week's CogDaily reports on peer-…

How squinting helps us see

Here's a fun little item, via Digg: Squinting reduces the amount of peripheral light coming into the eye so that a greater percentage of light comes from the center of the visual field. Important note: It's wrong to to say that "'squinting squishes the eyeball slightly to correct for a focus point that misses the mark.' Although the lens does change shape, this is a reflex muscle action that can accompany (but is not the result of) squinting." In other news: "Scans show how brains plot the future." Is this article overstating the evidence? You decide. You knew this was probably true:…

Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for December 23, 2006

Here's the Cognitive Daily weekly podcast for December 23. Don't forget that you can subscribe to the podcast using the special RSS feed: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/rss-podcasts.xml To subscribe using iTunes, select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu, then paste or type in the URL. To access the podcast directly, click on the links below: Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for December 23, 2006 (AAC version) Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for December 23, 2006 (MP3 version) Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast provides audio versions of each week's CogDaily reports on peer-…

Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for December 16, 2006

Here's the Cognitive Daily weekly podcast for December 16. Don't forget that you can subscribe to the podcast using the special RSS feed: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/rss-podcasts.xml To subscribe using iTunes, select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu, then paste or type in the URL. To access the podcast directly, click on the links below: Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for December 16, 2006 (AAC version) Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast for December 16, 2006 (MP3 version) Cognitive Daily's weekly podcast provides audio versions of each week's CogDaily reports on peer-…