Thursday, July 31, 2008

Your genes and your politics.

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Here are some clips from a piece by Constance Holden reporting on presentations at the recent annual Behavior Genetics Association meeting...
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A Twin Valley collage

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A few pics I made last Saturday in the yard of our Twin Valley home in Middleton, WI (click to enlarge).
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Moral Hypocrisy

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John Tierney has a nice piece in the NYTimes on studies that probe moral flip-flops of the sort evidenced in the current presidential campa...

The Curious Parallel of Language and Species Evolution

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An article in PLoS Biology with the title of this post with worth a look. It describes recent work that has it origins in Charles Darwin...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

If I'm Not Hot, Are You Hot or Not?

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Here is a quirky piece . Check out the website indicated... Prior research has established that people's own physical attractiveness af...

WikiPathways...

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I spent much of my training and early research career trying to figure out chemical pathways in cells, specifically the pathways linking li...

Nasty, brutish and short - a record lifespan

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Just to show you the opposite end of the lifespan spectrum - perhaps an antidote to our obsessing over whether we might expand human lifesp...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Brain correlates of insight - the Eureka! moment

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Jonah Lehrer, in the July 28 issue of The New Yorker, offers an article titled "The Eureka Hunt." Here is the abstract and the PD...

Mendelssohn, continued

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Here is the weekly posting of an portion of the house concert at Twin Valley on 6/29/08 the Andante expressivo from Mendelssohn's 2nd pi...

Resveratrol, anti-aging, continued...

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After getting a comment about the merits of different resveratrol sources from a blog reader in response post just below , I clicked aroun...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Our relationship with mirrors...

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Natalie Angier offers an excellent discussion of the biology, psychology and physics of our relationship with mirrors, how they are used i...

Update on drugs that might increase lifespan

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Nicholas Wade covers recent work by Sirtris, a startup company recently bought by GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million dollars. The drug can...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Psychopharma-parenting

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I am usually relatively inattentive to other blogs in the "mind" area, because we tend to get into recycling each other's mate...

Monoamine oxidase gene variant that correlates with aggression.

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A colleague has pointed out a recent paper that compliments work mentioned in my May 14 post showing that brain monoamine oxidase activity ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

MindBlog's half-sour pickle recipe

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This posting falls under the "random curious stuff" category mentioned in the title box of this blog. At the social/musical at my...

Observing nerve cells rewire themselves after stroke damage.

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In a technical tour de force, Winship and Murphy use the two photon imagining technique on living adult mouse brains to observe the indivi...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

fMRI of perspective taking with robots!

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Here is a quirky item ... set up a human machine interaction, and as the machine is given more human-like response characteristics, parts of...

Most popular consciousness papers

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Most popular downloads for June 2008, from the ASSC archive. Also, some of the papers from the annual meeting in Taipei are here : 1. Dest...
Monday, July 21, 2008

How we impose a natural order on events...

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Goldin-Meadow et al. do interesting experiments on how speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally, finding that linguisti...
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Mendelssohn, continued

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The is the weekly posting of an portion of the house concert at Twin Valley on 6/29/08 the Molto allegro ed agitato from Mendelssohn's 1...