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MIND the launch!

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By now, you've probably seen all of the hullaboo on the SciAm site about the launch of the Scientific American MIND blogs. New and old bloggers are teaming up here to write about all things wonderful and strange on psychology, neuroscience, and culture. I'm excited for all the new blogs (go check them out!) and for the opportunity to take this launch to introduce a new series on my blog.

This semester, I'm taking a special topics sociology class entitled "Sociological Analysis of Race Issues in Science." The class consists of a weekly discussion of articles of interest that range widely in this theme from official sociological statements on race, to various cultural/social perceptions of race, to historical and current perspectives on scientific research and policy. It's been a lot of food for thought, especially as a person who is interested in the intersection of neuroscience, society, and policy, so from time to time I'll be sharing the fruits born with you here. Look for these posts in addition to the neuroscience and music themed posts that are typical for this blog!

But as this post goes up, I'll be meticulously studying anatomical brain pictures for an upcoming midterm. So while you're waiting for the new Race Issues in Science series, go check out the six new blogs listed below.


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Illusion Chasers

Psysociety

Beautiful Minds

Notbadscience

The Moral Universe

The Scientific American Mind Guest Blog

Image: "A Series of Transverse Vertical Sections Through the Brain in a Case of Lesion of the Half-Vision Centre" via the National Library of Medicine.

About Princess Ojiaku

Hey there! I'm a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the Neuroscience and Public Policy program. I'm also a musician who played in two bands in North Carolina, one called Pink Flag and another called Deals. My personal passions are science, music, and cycling as transportation.

I got into science as a kid while tagging along and watching my mom do experiments in her lab. I found that while I loved science, I didn't want to be alone in an ivory tower, crunching data that few others would understand. I also noticed that many other people thought science was this scary and incomprehensible entity of obscurity. When I realized that there were people working to make science fun and accessible to everyone, I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do. The two things I find the most immensely interesting and continually impressing are music and neuroscience, so these are the topics that I'll focus on in my blog. Philosophy and politics are my second loves, so I might pop in an occasional post on these topics as well. Ultimately I am here to share things that give me wonder. I hope that reading Science with Moxie gives you a bit of that wonder too.

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