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Parasite in your brain
Video of the Week #60 September 11th, 2012: From: Brain Parasites, California s Hidden Health Problem by Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato at the Guest Blog .
#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - brain on internet, bad medical reporting, kids' brain scans, unrestricted wolf hunting, invisible QR codes, and more.
- Kyle Hill - This is Your Brain on the Internet (Maybe) - Christie Wilcox - Scientists play a large role in bad medical reporting - Joris van Alphen - Mount Kinabalu: First Sight of the Summit - Melissa Pandika - Surprise Valley: Down and Dirty in the Field - Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – interview with David Ng - Kalliopi Monoyios - SciArt of the Day: What’s Under the Hood? - Ingrid Wickelgren - Scientists Scan Children’s Brains for Answers to Mental Illness - John R.
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections: Drinking for Science, Circadian Cycles, Facebook Spying
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:In which a group of neuroscientists throw a party, munch on snacks, and throw back vodka martinis.
Scientists Scan Children s Brains for Answers to Mental Illness
A girl lies inside a simulator of a brain scanner at The Child Mind Institute, to practice for the real thing. Courtesy of Tobias Everke. In a room tucked next to the reception desk in a colorful lobby of a Park Avenue office tower, kids slide into the core of a white cylinder and practice something kids typically find quite difficult: staying still.
This Is Your Brain on the Internet (Maybe)
Headlines like “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” or “Is the Internet Making Us Dumber?” quite clearly show that people are concerned about what the Internet is doing to our cognition.
#SciAmBlogs Monday - creativity, competition, chimps in Uganda, Romney on climate, Russian ice-breakers, anti-obesity, iGnobels and more.
I hope you enjoy the new Image of the Week! - Samuel McNerney - Correcting Creativity: The Struggle for Eminence - Eve Conant - Breaking the Ice: Russian nuclear-powered ice-breakers - Amr Abouelleil - Anti-Obesity is not the New Homophobia - Russ Campbell - Science Communications as Knowledge Marketing and Killing the News Release - Scicurious - When it comes to competition, the anterior cingulate does it best. - David Wogan - Mitt Romney gets climate change – wait, just kidding! - Joris van Alphen - Mystery of the Mountain - Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: Two weeks and counting…. - Katherine Harmon - How Do You Count Giant Octopuses?
Chimps in Uganda: Two weeks and counting .
Photo: Maureen McCarthy In a mere two weeks, I’ll head back to Uganda for a year to collect data for my PhD thesis. For one year, I’ll collect data on chimpanzees in forest fragments, small patches of forest that remain amid a sea of human-altered landscape.
Hey, Andrew Sullivan, Stop Calling My Penis "Mutilated"
Photo credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan Andrew Sullivan, gay political pundit and blogger at The Daily Beast , lobbed some rather nasty insinuations my way last Wednesday.
Correcting Creativity: The Struggle for Eminence
By the time he put the finishing touches on the Rite of Spring in November of 1912 in the Châtelard Hotel in Clarens, Switzerland, Stravinsky had spent three years studying Russian pagan rituals, Lithuanian folk songs and crafting the dissonant sacre chord, in which an F-flat major combines with an E-flat major with added minor seventh.
Gamma-Ray Flashes
Image of the Week #59, September 10th, 2012:
From: The Evolution of a Scientific American Information Graphic: Gamma-Ray Flashes by Jen Christiansen at @ScientificAmerican .
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