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Many of us think of sharks as lone hunters. We imagine them spending most of their lives swimming alone, briefly seeking out the company of another shark for the purposes of reproduction, then going back to their solo ways...
Thanks to my jetlag, I managed to catch this beautiful sunrise over downtown Raleigh at Science Online 2012.
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. You might think that labels and logos indicate power or prestige, but you'd be wrong.
On Friday, I quickly posted this video, which shows a crow - likely a hooded crow (thanks to a commenter at Andrew Revkin's Dot Earth blog for the ID) - appearing to "snowboard" down the roof of a Russian building, using a small object as a makeshift snowboard...
This video (via Al Dove on twitter), which appears to be from Russia, shows a crow (can anybody confirm the identity of the bird?) engaging in an activity that can only be described as play...
Classical conditioning is one of those introductory psychology terms that gets thrown around. Many people have a general idea that it is one of the most basic forms of associative learning, and people often know that Ivan Pavlov's 1927 experiment with dogs has something to do with it, but that is often where it ends...
I'm going to be participating in a Google+ Hangout "On Air" tomorrow night. Google+ Hangouts are multi-user video-chats, but they're limited to 10 users.
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. You don't need a shaky bridge for misattribution of arousal to impact your relationship for the better: all you need is to do new, fun, exciting things with your partner!...
Shot earlier this week, an 11-photo panoramic of downtown LA, including the LA Opera and the Disney Concert Hall. On the far right, if you look closely, you'll find the self-portrait portion...
It's winter, and while Los Angeles has been unseasonably warm, I find my mind wandering to cooler things, like polar bears. In most zoos and animal parks, polar bears ( ursus maritimus ) attract such a disproportionate amount of attention that they are referred to in the industry as "charismatic megafauna," or in other words, "really cool animals." Perhaps it is because it is especially rare for the average zoo-goer to happen upon a polar bear in the wild, or because they live in such an inhospitable environment...
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