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omnibrain | February 15, 2007So cheezy....
Now for a classic....
And finally here's an entire site of children's songs rewritten to be about the brain.
And finally...a robot playing John Coltraine.
omnibrain | February 10, 2007You are Dr. Doom
Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.
Click here to take the Supervillain Personality Quiz
-Via Retrospectacle-
omnibrain | February 7, 2007Can someone tell me if this site is for real?
Here's a demo:
Off topic
Heres is a not probable, but possible theory of future humans. Aliens are evolved Asian people. A colleague of mine stated that Asian people have bigger brains than others. This got me thinking and I was thinking of this for a while now, even before he told me this and what he said confirmed this. Depictions of aliens look a lot like asian people, just with bigger heads.
This makes me want to be asian
posted by George Christodoulou at 10:21 PM 0 comments
Is this just a blog to gather advertising dollars or what?
omnibrain | January 27, 2007From Thom Parks:
The American Chemical Society is rich ground for blogging.
Scientific American has a piece about the American Chemical Society
spending close to half a million of membership dollars hiring two
lobbyists to defeat open access.
PBS just aired a documentary about a journalist at the American
Chemical Society who was fired for reporting that the White House was
suppressing federal scientists for speaking about the link between
hurricanes and global warming.
http://www.thirteen.org/air/111/latest.html
You can watch the episode, which is titled "Science Fiction."
http://www.…
omnibrain | January 26, 2007Here's a little Monty Python action about a brain surgeon.
D. P. Gumby - My Brain Hurts!
and a little P-Funk below the fold...
Parliament Funkadelic "Maggot Brain" 1978
omnibrain | January 26, 2007Here's the truth so far...
- A WEB EXPERIMENT -
(In no particular order)
1. Cigarettes are bad for you.
2. Men and Women are equal.
3. Global Warming is real.
4. It's not all relative.
5. Intelligent Design is wrong.
6. Over consumption is a serious problem.
7. The Millenium Development Goals are worthy*.
8. Wilco is good, sometimes exceptional, but often inconsequential.
9. Shit happens.
10. Creationism is silly. (also, see 5)
11. Science, for better or for worse, is all around.
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What the hell is this? See here
omnibrain | January 23, 2007I used to love these books! Check out this funny post about Mr. Bump over at Mind Hacks.
I've been notified of a rare case of focal retrograde amnesia that doesn't seem to have been reported in the medical literature.
Focal retrograde amnesia is where memory for past events and personal information is lost, while the ability to remember new events is spared.
The case is described in Mr Bump Loses His Memory by Roger Hargreaves (ISBN 1844229866).
omnibrain | January 22, 2007I ran across this blog which has all sorts of optical illusions, and they are not limited to the ones in psychology text books.
Check it out!
omnibrain | January 20, 2007So... is the next step wireless neurons? just sayin...
A "data cable" made from stretched nerve cells could someday help connect computers to the human nervous system. The modified cells should form better connections with human tissue than the metal electrodes currently used for purposes such as remotely controlling prosthetics (see Brain implant enables mind over matter).
Here's the original article
And here's some more randomness:
As I'm sure those of you who work for the government (or a public university in my case) know - you often have to take these ridiculous ethics training…
omnibrain | January 17, 2007It looks like there are a couple of interesting articles/TV shows out there in the last couple days highlighting some Omni Brain topics of the last few weeks.
You know how I love the mind control people, It looks like the Washington Post has a great article on it...
Mind Games
New on the Internet: a community of people who believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. They may be crazy, but the Pentagon has pursued a weapon that can do just that.
And of course you all remember the severed dogs head! National Geographic is producing a show about the Russian research that came up…
tlambert | November 15, 2005Andrew Chang writes a lettter to the Vancouver Sun which published a Lott editorial full of his usual cooked numbers.
Chang also links to an old Usenet thread where he, Mary Rosh and I were involved. Oddly enough, Lott and I have been continuing the argument in comments at the Volokh Conspiracy.
tlambert | December 23, 2004 Boffo blog tells the story of a Lott presentation at a workshop about a decade ago:
I was not prepared for how truly awful the paper was. His argument concerned how expensive elections have become in this country. ... His evidence consisted of a correlation between growth in federal spending and growth in campaign spending, and from that he concluded that Big Government caused expensive campaigns. Two lines trending upwards, and he claims with perfect seriousness---and without performing any of the necessary tests---that the one causes the…
tlambert | November 17, 2004 Kevin Drum is displeased that the LA Times published another op-ed from John Lott:
The man is a fraud and the Times demeans itself by allowing him space on their pages.
tlambert | July 1, 2004 Sadly No gives Lott's latest op-ed the short shrift it deserves.
Update: Hunt Stilwell also writes about the stupidity of Lott's argument.
tlambert | March 31, 2004 A couple of weeks ago Xrlq wrote about me:
He's the Australian blogger who aspires to do to John Lott what Clayton Cramer did to Michael Bellesiles. Unfortunately, he doesn't do a very good job; while Cramer uncovered overwhelming evidence Bellesiles's fundamental research was fabricated, the best Lambert has been able to do is to uncover a few really stupid things Lott has done on a few isolated occasions. The rest of his rebuttals consist of gratuitous attacks on Lott personally.
I felt that this was incorrect, so I remonstrated.with Xrlq in…
tlambert | March 16, 2004I have posted some of my emails to the firearmsreg mailing list from September and October 2002. This shows some of the initial discussion of Lott's mysterious survey. Read them here.
tlambert | February 28, 2004Chris Mooney writes that he hasn't received an adequate response from Lott's webmaster about the changing files on Lott's website either.
tlambert | February 6, 2004 Kevin Drum is rather annoyed than the LA Times has published an op-ed by Lott. Lott's argument is that if someone doesn't answer a question he can attribute to them whatever answer is most damaging to them. If we applied the same standard to Lott, then since he never answered my question as to why he removed the clustering correction from his model, we could assume that the answer was "I was trying to cook the results".