Here are my ResearchBlogging Editor's Selections for this week.
This week, Psychology and Neuroscience blogging brings us some fantastic science, as always.
- First and second, the fearless leader of ResearchBlogging, Dave Munger, provides us with two awesome visual illusions, and explains them: the Troxler effect, and spinning ellipses.
- Next, Krystal D'Costa of Anthopology in Practice discusses Bullying and Emotional Intelligence on the Web and the potential consequences of over-sharing online.
- Finally, another gem from Scicurious of Neurotopia: The Incredible Healing Mouse. Pierced, then not, then pierced, then not again.
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