Monday, May 31, 2021

Will our American democracy collapse?

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An apocalyptic opinion piece by Krugman induces me to ruminations of the sort I’ve been inflicting on MindBlog readers in recent posts (see...
Friday, May 28, 2021

The latest on wearable stress-relief

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Over its 15 year history MindBlog has done several reviews of widgets currently on the market that are meant to monitor and relieve stress. ...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Bias Is a Big Problem. But So Is ‘Noise.’

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I have to pass on the strong dose of sanity offered by Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues in a recent NYTimes guest essay. They make some ...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Darwin’s insights: How the evolutionary perspective has come to permeate the social sciences.

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I want to pass on a review article on human evolution by Richerson1,Gavrilets, and de Waal (open source) in a recent issue of Science Magaz...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Can You Have More Than 150 Friends?

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MindBlog has done more than 9 posts over the past 15 years (enter Dunbar in the search box in the left column of this web page) pointing to ...
Monday, May 24, 2021

For consciousness theory mavens: an argument against Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory.

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Behavioral and Brain Science invites commentary on a forthcoming article by Merker et al. Here is the abstract: Giulio Tononi's Int...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

I owe my soul to the company store (Google).

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As I pass through my 79th birthday I offer a cathartic rant - without worrying about whether its parts cohere: I am the white collar equiv...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Educational attainment does not influence brain aging

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Well...so much for my smugness over knowing that educational attainment slows brain aging. Nyberg et al. (open souce) show that it ain'...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

The curiosity circuits of our brains.

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Every morning, as I am passing through the waking, exercise, and breakfast rituals that finally deliver me to my 'professor is in' o...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Liberal fact-master nerds go down the rabbit hole of a social media conspiracy.

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I pass on this clip from the Morning Dispatch sent by a friend. Check out the link to the NYTimes article it refers to. Ben Smith descr...
Monday, May 17, 2021

How both tribes are missing the mark

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Continuing in the thread of last Monday's post , I can't resist passing on three articles that absolutely nail the current dilemma i...
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Friday, May 14, 2021

Two promising post-traumatic stress disorder treatments

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I want to pass on references to two new approaches to relieving the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nuwer describes a n...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Social isolation makes us stupid.

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The summary of an open source article from Ingram et al. in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology: Studies examining the effect of s...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Tribe trumps truth.

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I've been trying to cut down on the number of posts on politics, but with the republican party now requiring a loyalty test that is the ...
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Friday, May 07, 2021

Structural Whitening

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I pass on this summary by Rai of a study by Anicich et al. in J. Exp. Soc. Psychol: As the US population becomes more racially diverse, i...
Wednesday, May 05, 2021

Evidence that monkeys have conscious awareness of self - they know what they saw.

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Ben-Haim et al. Disentangle perceptual awareness from nonconscious processing in rhesus monkeys   Significance Many animals perform co...
Monday, May 03, 2021

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

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From Ellis et al. L  Significance The current biodiversity crisis is often depicted as a struggle to preserve untouched habitats. Here, we...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Excess mortality rates since 2000 in the US compared with Europe.

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Interesting, from Preston and Vierboom. Just the numbers, no commentary on the causes (mainly opioid crisis?). We use three indexes to i...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Embracing diversity can disadvantage minorities

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From Starck et al. :   Significance There are numerous reasons why institutions of higher education may choose to embrace diversity. A co...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Sensitivity to geometric shape: A putative signature of human singularity

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From Sablé-Meyer et al. : Among primates, humans are special in their ability to create and manipulate highly elaborate structures of langu...