life That sounds like something I would do I had a senior weird moment whilst setting up the experiments for this afternoon's baby. I needed to get some soothing music to play in the background to keep the little beggar happy when I showed it stuff. Having just transferred to a new lab, I didn'
psycho Psycho? Social? The last two emails in my inbox are very similar and yet very different. See if you can spot the difference between psychosocial studies and social cognitive neuroscience!! Cognitive mechanisms and cerebral substrates of the processing of other's gaze direction Subject: Next CPS seminar Date: 26 February 2007
psycho it's okay if god does it Thinking Meat's review of Dawkins' The God Delusion pointed me to a great psychological study showing how the Bible doesn't provide very good moral guidance. Skeptic paper
psycho Sapolsky on stress Robert Sapolsky is a great science communicator. If you read any of the titles some of his scientific papers you might scratch your head about "Biphasic cytochrome c release after transient global ischemia and its inhibition by hypothermia." But when talking to a more general audience, he is
science how to do science and religion Wellington Grey provides these helpful flowcharts. [embedded image removed at request of author..]
good technically illegal GLORIFYING TERRORISM (Rackstraw Press) is, technically, illegal - because every SF/F story in this anthology breaks the current UK law that bans the glorification of terrorism. Whatever that is, of course. - Karen Travis Technically illegal is practically my middle name, so I've ordered my copy. Have
science twins unparadoxed? Apparently the twin paradox has been resolved and by a compsci professor no less. See here His solution is pretty much the same as for Newton's Bucket paradox.. take the whole universe as some kind of frame of reference. But I'm not sure that you are
science smashing.. Atom smasher may give birth to 'Black Saturns'New Scientist Super Monkey Collider Loses FundingThe Onion
Berlin Seeed - Ding a lot of my nights in Berlin were like this [youtube]MNRNGesJGcc[/youtube] mostly thanks to the dirtyraggasquad and their friends.
psycho the sweet smell of putrefaction Oh, you skeptics and naysayers, you timorous, trembling deniers of controversy, you lovers of the status quo.. How you mocked my bold theories about the The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Zombies. You couldn't accept my perhaps unpalatable conclusions about the zombie sensorium. But it seems there is converging evidence
god Nick Gisburne Nick Gisburne had been happily posting anti-Christian videos to youtube with no real problem. He then made film that featured quotes from the Quran and his accounts were very quickly deleted. The video did not carry any overt commentary. It was just a string of quotes set to music. But
science super computer I am now the proud owner of one eightieth(-ish) of a supercomputer. Using the built-in XGrid clustering/distributed computing gee-whizzery in my PowerBook. It took half a minute to offer up all my spare CPU-cycles to the MacResearch OpenMacGrid. A grid that is open for any deserving research number-crunching
words What are words worth? The novelist Jonathan Lethem has written produced a long essay for Harper's entitled 'The Ecstasy of Influence. Where he passionately celebrates the debt artists pay to their predecessors and decries the corporate over-enclosure of what should by now be the public domain. (The song Happy Birthday was
bad an infantologist writes an online discussion of whether all babies are cute lead to a friend stating this Who said babies are interesting? They need to get out more.... The possibility of life on Mars is interesting, something that dribbles a lot and craps its pants all the time, is not. But some
psycho a losing run Today's best Eureka Alert headline Medical therapy for restless legs syndrome may trigger compulsive gambling [linky] But, crazily, it's not as crazy as it sounds.. Restless legs syndrome is a sleep disorder that involves tickling, tingling sensations in the legs and a strong urge to move
words unpredictive texting I was a little drunk last night and finished the night making some unpredictable and confuzled text messages. There was one unfinished one saved in draft, I have not the slightest clue what it was supposed to be about: "Alas. This re-memorial spoke to up with our empathy sold
bad Institute of Measurement and Control http://www.instmc.org.uk/ The Institute of Measurement and Control is located at 87 Gower Street, which is diagonally across from Waterstones and a building that I have walked past almost everyday for the last 18 months. I had never noticed it before. I doubt they'd have
psycho Autism speaking I'd urge you watch this video of an autistic woman demonstrating her private language for interacting with the world and then 'translating it' into our language. [youtube]JnylM1hI2jc[/youtube] She is very eloquent in both. You can support research into the understanding the causes and helping
life prod http://www.peoplesrepublicofdis.co.uk/ evidence that my dancing is no worse than that of my friends.. (that's why they are my friends) [youtube]u0dp3OvAKJo[/youtube]
