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Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Here's something we all want to know: are New Years resolutions doomed to fail? Find out at Guru Magazine.
It's really hard to come up with a list of what I consider to be my best photos from the previous year. To start with, some of my favorites photos are perhaps not strictly the "best," and some of the best photos may not really move me much...
While this blog will remain quiet through the weekend - I've decided to really, actually take this week off - I'd like to take a moment to wish all of my readers and friends across the blogosphere a very Happy New Year.Onward to 2012!...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:Most bloggers are taking the week off, so only two picks this week, but they're great!
Whatever holiday you might be celebrating (if you're celebrating at all), I hope it was enjoyable. Photo: Canon EOS Rebel XTi, 44mm, ISO 1600, f/5.0, 1/125 sec.
According to holiday lore, poor Rudolph was a victim of social exclusion because he was different from the rest of the reindeer. In a move that was lucky for nice (but not naughty) children everywhere, he was then approached by Santa, who asked him to guide the sleigh...
It's better than an ant farm. It's more exciting than a flea circus. Welcome to Cricket Fight Club. The first rule of Cricket Fight Club is: you do not talk about Cricket Fight Club.
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Your brain isn't alone in processing emotion - it needs your body, too! Find out how the brain and body interact in processing emotions at Bill Yates's blog Brain Posts: Brain and Gut in Processing Emotion Over at Inkfish, Elizabeth Preston hits another one outta' the park: Aesop's Crows Understand Physics, Literature Neuroskeptic points out that, "antipsychotic use in Canadian children and teens is rising dramatically - prescriptions more than doubled in just 4 years, from 2005 to 2009." Find out why: Young, Canadian and on Antipsychotics A handful of disorders have been hypothesized to involve a "disconnection," or a reduction in connectivity among brain areas...
As long as there have been political dictators, psychologists have been fascinated with them. While many psychologists try to understand what happens in normal, rational people that leads them to follow such clearly dangerous leaders, some psychologists have been more interested in characterizing the personality profiles of dictators themselves...
A random shot from this week's photographic adventures. Link to entire album.
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