Mind & Brain
Neuroscience in Fiction: Dexter's Final Season Premiere
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dexter_Logo.svg " I was drawn to forensics too, but I chose to focus on neuroscience.
Illusion Chasers
Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
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Illusion of the Week: Jesus is watching you!
The face appears to always looks directly at you, no matter your position. And coolest of all, it looks at everybody in all positions all at once.
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Fat Tuesday: Even if you eat a healthy diet, your genes can make you fat
Credit: Boston Children's Hospital. Three sibling mice. The one on the left has a genetic defect that causes it to grow fat even though it was given the same diet.
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Through the Eyes of a Child
The adult subject sees a child self image in the mirror My grandmother liked Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, and sometimes I watched them with her.
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Illusion of the Week: "U Can't Parse This" Illusion Dance
This illusion is remarkably resilient to our best cognitive efforts to assign the correct arms and legs to each of the dancers. Our visual system insists in grouping adjacent body parts by color (and congruent motion)...
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Illusion of the Week: JC Penney's Hitler Teapot
1934: German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) giving the Nazi salute from his car whilst at the Nazi Party Congress. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) This week, an image is worth a thousand words...
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Happy Birthday PeerJ!
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the paradigm-shifting new journal, PeerJ . It used to be that to read about science, even science paid for by tax payers, you had to pay expensive subscription fees...
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Happy Father's Day to all Superdads
© Giulia Pex Photographer Giulia Pex has come up with the coolest Father Day's present ever. Her series "Dad, you are my favourite superhero" mixes drawing, illustration and photography to showcase her dad's alter egos as the Man of Steel or the Dark Knight. © Giulia Pex The surprisingly effective and deceptively simple comic-book style portraits convey both affection and spur-of-the-moment spontaneity...
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Neuroscience in Fiction: Fear and panic in Jaden and Will Smith s After Earth
“You must realize that fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.” ― Will Smith as General Cypher Raige in After Earth Just in time for Father’s Day weekend, the father-and-son duo Will and Jaden Smith costar in the new filial love epic/sci-fi adventure After Earth...
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Join a Think Tank in NYC!
The Think Tank is a mobile cognitive science lab and education station that will harness intrinsic interest in the human brain and mind to get disadvantaged and STEM-underrepresented kids hooked on science...
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