Mind & Brain
Friday Fun: Dolphin Stampede
This video (via the Washington Post, CBS Evening News, and Dana Point Whale Watch) showing a super-pod of perhaps 2000 dolphins off the coast of southern California, made the rounds last week...
The Thoughtful Animal
Exploring the evolution and architecture of the mind
Mind & Brain
Can You Hear Me Now? Human Noise Disrupts Blue Whale Communication
When you dive into the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California, the first thing you notice is the silence. Other than the bitter cold.
Mind & Brain
Editor's Selections: Bubble Bursting, Deja Vu, and a Dopamine Explainer
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. "[The] ability for other people's emotional expressions to affect our own risk taking - a form of 'social referencing' - is surprisingly under researched in psychology." This, according to BPS Research Digest blogger Christian Jarrett: Bursting Balloons and Anxious Faces...
Mind & Brain
Dingoes Ate My Nametag: Tool Use in a Dingo
Each morning, a nametag would turn up missing. They went missing at some point during the nights, when nobody was around to notice. Each time one went missing, of course, it would be replaced...
Health
Editor's Selections: Casinos, Hazing, and Psychosis in the City
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Why are casinos so good at taking your money? Sure, most of the games favor the house, but there's more to it than that...
Evolution
Desert Ants Are Better Than Most High School Students At Trigonometry
This marks the 500th post in the history of The Thoughtful Animal! To mark the occasion, I thought I'd revise and repost the post that started it all.
Technology
Sunday Photoblogging: Science and Art in Beverly Hills
One of our regular spots when my shooting partner and I head out to take photos is the Rodeo Drive area of Beverly Hills. If nothing else, the window displays usually give us lots of variety and interesting lighting to work with...
Evolution
Book Review: Babel's Dawn
Babel's Dawn , a book that grew out of a blog about the natural history of speech, is probably not like any other book you've read. That's because it's not really a book about the natural history of speech: it's a book about a (fictitious) museum that tells the story about the natural history of speech...
Health
Editor's Selections: Valentine's Day Edition
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week.How about some Valentine's Day science on this Valentine's Day? First, from Melanie Tannenbaum at PsySociety: are love and hate really all that different?...
Evolution
Chimpanzees Help, But Only When Asked
Chimpanzees have a bad reputation. Maybe it's because humans have a thing about wanting to feel unique among primates. Some have argued that humans are the only species that truly behaves altruistically, the only species that actively helps out other individuals even when there is no direct benefit...
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