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Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:If you want someone to watch your video online, it should probably be less than three minutes long.
The idea behind quantifying personality is deceptively simple: personality refers to predictable differences in behavior between people. Those differences should be reasonably reliable.
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past two weeks:"Can You Learn To Be Synaesthetic?" asks the Neuroskeptic. Errr, maybe? In a way.
The Scientific American Blog Network launched one year ago today! Happy birthday to us! Following in the tradition of the rest of the network (borrowed, in turn, from Drugmonkey and Ed Yong), I'm going to take this opportunity to find out who you are...
Sometimes, zoo animals behave unnaturally. Most animals on display at zoos are not really designed for captive living. If you've been to a zoo, no doubt you've noticed evidence of this: a tiger who paces back and forth, or a monkey that does nothing but circle the enclosure...
The Giant Anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla , only eats ants and termites, as its name suggests. Since the giant anteater and its evolutionary ancestors have been feasting on ants and termites for nearly 60 million years, a researcher named Kent Redford hypothesized that, over time, ants and termites may have evolved various defenses to avoid predation...
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:Any inquiry into the history of psychology has to include Emil Kraepelin and his description of dementia praecox .
Yogi Bear always claimed that he was smarter than the average bear, but the average bear appears to be smarter than once thought. Psychologists Jennifer Vonk of Oakland University and Michael J...
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:Growing Up on Zoloft – David Dobbs Talking Drugs, Depression, and Identity With Katherine SharpeWhy do we (accidentally) name babies for hurricanes?...
Last week (June 5, 2012), the lucky citizens of Earth were in just the right place to watch Venus's transit across the face of the sun. While this occurred just eight years ago as well, it won't happen again for more than a century...
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