Wednesday, August 31, 2011

G-Male

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I just had to pass on this dead-on (and scary) parody of Google that my daughter pointed out to me.
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Just looking at the American flag can make you a Republican?

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Oh-my-gawd, now do we not only have a potential president Rick Perry who will rule by faith over reason, and doesn't believe in science,...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Fat mice live longer with resveratrol.

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Nicholas Wade points to a study by de Cabo, Sinclar, and colleages that studies the effect of a drug, SRT-1720, that has extends the lifes...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Estimates of social influence - the "unfriending problem"

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In the latest issue (Aug 26) of Science Magazine Barbara Jasny does a nice summary of recent work by Noel and Nyhan : Studies of social inf...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Synthesis of new brain cells and social dysfunction.

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In rodent models of depression, antidepressant drugs are effective only if the hippocampus is able to generate new nerve cells (neurogenesis...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Brain excitation/inhibition balance and social dysfunction

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Yates does a review of recent work by Deisseroth and colleagues , who have now shown that in mice, an elevation in the excitation/inhibitio...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

A unified bottleneck in our brains limits our attention

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It has been a common assumption that different tasks requiring our attention, like making perception distinctions or making action choices a...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

New views on cancer - 99% of the functioning genes in our bodies are not ‘ours’.

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They are the genes of bacteria and fungi that have evolved with us in a symbiotic relationship. This fascinating factoid is from an article...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Trying to live forever - Centenarians have plenty of bad habits

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Here are two recent bits on aging: O'Connor points to a study that ...focused on Ashkenazi Jews, a group that is more genetically ...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Neotony - how long does our pre-frontal cortex stay young?

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When I first looked at the title "Extraordinary neoteny of synaptic spines in the human prefrontal cortex", I excitedly thought ...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

The dark side of emotion in decision making.

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A mindblog reader emailed me pointing out this (before MindBlog started up) 2005 publication by Bechara and collaborators on the role of e...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Why worry? It's good for you.

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I've been meaning to point out an interesting piece by Robert Frank in the business section of the NYTimes, a subject mindblog has touc...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Class warfare and voting

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I thought this cartoon was a nice job, and for days have been debating passing it on in a post... so, here it is (click to enlarge). A...
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Information and ideas are not the same thing!

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Neal Gabler does a terrific opinion piece in this past Sunday's NYTimes on how our culture increasing follows present centered and tran...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

How google effects our memory.

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Daniel Wegner can be counted on to be always coming up with interesting stuff.  Here he does a series of experiments showing how google is ...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

The art of musical notation - scoring outside the lines

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Pat Muchmore writes a fascinating piece on musical scores that are presented in a more exotic form than the standard music clef notations t...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Cowboys and Pit Crews

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Yesterday's posting on Atul Gawande's writing has reminded of his more recent essay " Cowboys and Pit Crews ," on medical ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Atul Gawande on aging.

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I've been assembling a short list of possible essay/lecture topics, and one of the putative titles is "You're gonna die... get ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Do 18-month old humans have a theory of mind?

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Senju et al. , following up on an experiment by Meltzoff and Brooks , use a rather clever experimental design to show that 18-month old chil...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

In a nutshell....

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I have to pass on the cover of the current New Yorker Magazine: