The Thoughtful Animal

Biomimicry: Social Media Week at USC

The time is upon us. As I wrote about earlier this week, it is Social Media Week in Los Angeles, and I’m participating, liveblogging (on this post!

Origins of Morality: Puppet-Show Style!

Morality and convention are so mired in culture that it may seem near impossible to determine the extent to which biology and environment give rise to it.

Social Media Week in LA

This week is Social Media Week in Los Angeles, as well as in Mexico City, Milan, Bogota, and Buenos Aires. What does that mean, exactly? Social Media Week is a multi-city global conference connecting people, content and conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media...

Science Blogger Blogcast Showdown

We initially planned on doing these group blogcasts roughly once per month, but then, well, Pepsigate happened and blogs were moved, people were distracted, and so on.

Editor’s Selections: Video Games, Global Warming, Religion, and Sex

Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. Dr. Shock says that Internet and Video Games Improve Reading Skills and Visual Spatial Skills in Children.

Monday Midnight Movie: The Shofar

Proto-Fairness? Hints of Moral Thinking in Dogs

Cooperation and conflict are both a part of human society. While a good deal of the academic literature addresses the evolutionary origins of conflict, in recent years there has been an increased focus on the investigation of the evolutionary origins of cooperative behavior...

Extra, Extra

Another week, another new blog network. Go say hello to the bloggers at Wired Science. Five of the six should look familiar, if you’ve been around Scienceblogs for a while: Brian Switek, David Dobbs, Daniel Macarthur, Maryn McKenna, Rhett Allain and Brian Romans, joined Jonah Lehrer, who had already been there a few weeks...

I’m on Bloggingheads.tv!

My Child’s Play co-blogger Melody and I are the subjects of today’s Bloggingheads.tv Science Saturday program. Watch us chat with eachother for about an hour on how we became scientists and science bloggers, our thoughts on the state of psychology as a field, peer review and the journal system, how the study of language learning [...]..

Thoughtful Animal Blog Schwag (for charity)!!!!!

The schwag shop has opened! Imagine how awesome your desk would look with a Thoughtful Animal mug on it. Need a bag to lug your books around in?