Thursday, January 31, 2008

Why men are at the top.

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Helena Cronin presents an interesting idea about why men walk off with most of the top positions and prizes that sidesteps the usual assump...

Creationists launch 'science' journal

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Oh my gawd........ a new Creationist 'scientific' journal. This from the Jan. 23 online Nature News : Papers will be peer reviewed ...
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George Lakoff on Obama vs. Hillary

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Here are some succinct points made by George Lakoff , who has written on the power of metaphors in politics, and the importance of 'fr...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Newborn humans: predisposition for biological motion

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This work demonstrates that when we are born, we have an innate bias towards attending to motions characteristic of other living things. Ne...
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Songbirds also have mirror neurons.

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Mirror neurons in humans and other primates fire both when a given action is either performed or observed (see the ' mirror neuron ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

More on the evils of multitasking.

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In a comment below, MindBlog reader Gregory points to a great article in the Atlantic on the toxic mental effects of multitasking. I wante...
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Pinker et al. on the logic of indirect speech.

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Pinker, Nowak, and Lee do an interesting perspectives article in PNAS that looks more rigorously at why we don't just blurt out what we...

More Retro Video

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After last week's Disco flashback, I can't resist giving you a little more nostalgia (this ought to make you cringe)... The Partridg...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Are you holding your breath?

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I notice - if I am maintaining awareness of my breathing - that the breathing frequently stops as I begin a skilled activity such as piano ...
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Why you think that $100 bottle of wine is better...

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This little bit of work notes the neural basis of some of our 'refined aesthetic preferences'...what your brain might be doing when ...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

The new commonwealth

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Some interesting comments by Kevin Kelly on possible political consequences of the Wikipedia phenomenon, excerpted from his brief essay . ...
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Immune system subjugation of the brain

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Research on links between brain, behavior, and the immune system is expanding rapidly. It has long been known that depression lowers immuni...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Does the internet liberate or enslave us?

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A book by Lee Siegel "Against the Machine," reviewed by Janet Maslin in the NY Times, and an essay by Nicholas Carr raise a r...
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Remember Disco??

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I saw this video (So Many Men, So Little Time - Miquel Brown) during happy hour at the local bar (Georgie's Alibi) several evenings ago ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The myth of the mid-life crisis.

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Here is an engaging article by Richard Freedman on the supposed crisis around age 50 (mainly in men) when the first signs of physical decl...

Terror alerts kill more people than terrorists in the US?

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I have long held the opinion, reinforced by this article in the NYTimes , that the absurd terror alert system devised by the department of ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Impressionable Brain

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I want to pass on this essay by Marcel Kinsbourne, which is an interesting exegesis of the implication of mirror neuron systems in our brain...
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Antidepressant effects of exercise - a mechanism

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Here is an interesting bit from Hunsberger et al. in Nature Medicine , which suggests that a nerve growth factor pathway might be a target f...

GENES R US

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This clip from the Jan. 20 issue of Science: Personal genomics revved into high gear last year thanks to DNA chips that make it possible to ...
Monday, January 21, 2008

A Debussy Ballade - music for the start of the week

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The only downside of being in Ft. Lauderdale FL. (sunny, 81 degress on Saturday) versus Madison, WI. (-7 degress, cloudy) is that my Steinwa...
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