Monday, February 28, 2011

Politics in Madison, WI

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I spend the spring, summer, and fall months in Madison, WI., writing this blog from my university office there, and so have been closely fol...
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Improving your cognitive toolkit - V

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Continuation of my abstracting of a few of the answers to the annual question at edge.org, "What scientific concept would improve ever...
Friday, February 25, 2011

A potpuorri of almost-posts

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As I scan journals' tables of contents and abstracts of articles looking for potential MindBlog posts, I accumulate a list of post candi...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

How stress damages or enhances different aspects of our vision

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Richie Davidson, Alex Schackman and colleagues report a fascinating study that demonstrates that stress (painful, but not harmful, random e...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Uncertainty increases romantic attraction

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Another interesting bit of work from Daniel Gilbert and collaborators: This research qualifies a social psychological truism: that people ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Strategies for remembering.

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Two recent articles offer different perspectives on retaining information. The interesting NYTimes magazine article by world class memory a...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Improving your cognitive toolkit - IV

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Continuation of my abstracting of a few of the answers to the annual question at edge.org, "What scientific concept would improve every...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Empire at the End of Decadence

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Since MindBlog seems to be doing a political weekend, I'm thinking I should, after yesterday's pointer to George Lakoff, also note t...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

What conversatives really want.

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A great essay from George Lakoff on the real significance of what is going on back in my Madison Wisconsin home.

A Sunday School Hymn - Evolution Made Us All

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From The Laughing Squid site , a spoof of a sunday school hymn: Evolution Made Us All from Ben Hillman on Vimeo .
Friday, February 18, 2011

Suppressing emotions correlates with larger prefrontal cortical area

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I'm a "keep calm and carry on" kind of guy, always suppressing my emotional reactivity in charged situations (which is probabl...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Placebo in 3 minutes

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This sent by a loyal blog reader, pulled from this Australian site :
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Blue-enriched light keeps us alert...

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I think I've mentioned before that I used to put natural spectrum florescent lights (with more blue wavelengths) in my research laborato...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Skeuomorphs - why innovation is also a throwback

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Joshua Brustein writes a nice piece on how innovation usually doffs an old hat, maintaining superfluous marks of its evolution (skeuomorphs...

Sleep enhances memories relevant to the future.

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Here is a fascinating bit of work from Wilhelm et al. , which possibly explains why in my first moments of starting to awaken, I notice that...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Foundations of religious belief

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Judith Shulevitz reviews James Kugel's "In the Valley of the Shadow - on the Foundations of Religious Belief." The book rose ...
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Improving your cognitive toolkit - part III

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CContinuation of my abstracting of a few of the answers to the annual question at edge.org, "What scientific concept would improve eve...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Anniversary of Deric's MindBlog

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I just realized that Feb. 6 marked the start of year 6 of this blog. We've now clocked ~2,500 Posts, and there are roughly 2,000 subscr...
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The Net Delusion

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I've been meaning to point to Lee Siegel's review of Evgeny Morozov's new book "The Net Delusion - The Dark Side of Intern...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

The size weight illusion is not an illusion for throwing.

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Zhu and Bingham offer an interesting bit of work that suggests that human throwing and speaking abilities developed in a manner that is con...
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