Mind & Brain
Video of the Week: Happy Chanukah!
These dudes are awesome.
The Thoughtful Animal
Exploring the evolution and architecture of the mind
Mind & Brain
Editor’s Selections: Evil Cats, Parenting, and Confiding in Your Computer
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: DJ Busby of the Astronasty blog writes, “2 to 3 billion people, about half the world’s population, have a brain parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, which causes a disease called toxoplasmosis…The parasite’s main host are cats, but infects many warm blooded animals.” I always knew cats [...]..
Mind & Brain
Twelve Months of The Thoughtful Animal (2010)
King of all blogmemery Drugmonkey has started another one this week. The rules for this blog meme are quite simple. Post the link and first sentence from the first blog entry for each month of the past year...
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Bilingual Brains: Reading in Hebrew and in English
I’ve got an article that appeared in this week’s Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles about recent research from Hadassah University on the neurobiology of bilingual (English-Hebrew) reading...
Mind & Brain
Evolutionary Psychology Beyond Sex
Eric M. Johnson and I spent about 45 minutes discussing “evolutionary psychology beyond sex” last night, which you can see today on Bloggingheads “Science Saturday.” Or just watch it here:...
Mind & Brain
Open Lab Update: 2010 in Blogging, by Category
On Wednesday I posted the full list of the almost 900 posts submitted to Open Lab. As part of the process that I’m using to distribute the posts to my awesome reviewers, I’ve assigned each post a primary category...
Mind & Brain
Open Lab, Closed. Now the work begins…
And it is over! The submission deadline has just passed. No more submissions will be accepted for the 2010 edition of the Open Laboratory. I have lined up an impressive list of reviewers who will immediately start receiving their first judging lists and the complex process of winnowing down almost 900 entries into the final [...]..
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Editor’s Selections: Football, Strawberry Syrup, and Jonah Lehrer
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: Ready for some more Thanksgiving science? Brad Walters of Cortical Hemming and Hawing asks what football can tell us about decision-making: Why you should always go for it on 4th and short...
Mind & Brain
Sex, Death, and Evolution at LA’s Natural History Museum
A fun talk about sex, death and evolution at LA’s Natural History Museum. It’s free and ticketless — so please bring friends and colleagues!
Mind & Brain
Open Lab Entries So Far: Five Days Left!
There are only FIVE DAYS left for submissions! Dig through your archives, through other people’s archives and submit! Note: if you have recently moved your blog, please e-mail Bora the corrected URLs for your entries The list is growing fast – check the submissions to date and get inspired to submit something of your own [...]..
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