Mind & Brain
Are Sheep Better at Botany than the US Government?
Botanically, a tomato is a fruit: a seed-bearing structure that grows from the flowering part of a plant. In 1893, however, the highest court in the land ruled in the case of Nix v.
The Thoughtful Animal
Exploring the evolution and architecture of the mind
Health
Editor's Selections: Feeling Worse, Feeling Better, Feeling Dumber
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Do antidepressants make some people feel worse? As usual, Neuroskeptic has the answers you seek.
The Sciences
Open Lab 2011! (but really 2012)
The final 50 posts (plus one poem) that will comprise the next edition of the yearly anthology of the best science writing on the web have been officially announced by this year's editor Jennifer Ouellette.Having served as editor for last year's edition, I know just how hard and painful the editing process can be – how much more impressive, then, this awesome example of the incredible variation and diversity within the science blogosphere...
Health
Editor's Selections: Fear, Mentors, Exercise and Your Brain
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Are you afraid of spiders? Eric, blogging at Peer-Reviewed By My Neurons has some tips on How To Be Less Afraid of Spiders...
The Sciences
Sunday Photoblogging: Curious about Curiosity
Last weekend, NASA successfully launched the Mars Science Laboratory - called Curiosity, which is currently well on its way towards the red planet.Back in May, I went to an Open House at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena...
Mind & Brain
Marie Curie, Theater, and Science Communication: An Interview with Alan Alda
I grew up watching M*A*S*H reruns with my dad, so even early in life, Alan Alda, who played Dr. Hawkeye Pierce throughout the show's eleven seasons, was a familiar name and face.
Health
On Capsaicin: Why Do We Love to Eat Hot Peppers?
Stories of pepper spray have been all over the news lately. On Fox News, Megyn Kelly wondered what all the fuss about this "food product" was, and while pepper spray is no vegetable, the compound that makes pepper spray into a weapon at 2-5.3 million Scoville units, is indeed the same compound that many humans find enjoyable when consumed in dishes that include peppers much lower on the Scoville scale...
Health
Editor's Selections: More on Pepper Spray, and Synaesthesia
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. By now you've heard a lot about how dangerous weaponized pepper spray can be, and how much more dangerous to people suffering from respiratory diseases like asthma...
The Sciences
Sunday Photoblogging: San Diego Storm
Another photographic offering from last week's jaunt to San Diego. Click to enlarge.
Mind & Brain
Editor's Selections: Awe, Social Networks, Visual Perception
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Among feelings that are investigated by scientists, we don't usually hear about awe .
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