comics The Calvin and Hobbes Searchable Database http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch/comics/search.cgi An excellent new search engine and web resource.. Not many monkeys but plenty of dinosaurs!
psycho bad analogy http://www.futureoftheboo...auses_of_b.html reviewBreaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon"Mr. Dennett believes that explaining religion in evolutionary terms will make it less real; that is the whole purpose of his book. But this is like saying that because water is made of two
life Wedding on 14th August (Year unknown) It occurs to me that the 14th August is a good day to get married. That way one's hemi-anniversaries will always fall on Valentine's Day.
london where have you been? So i just met Her Maj, Prince Phil and da princess royal.. it was more fun than i expected.. they were pretty dull but Buckingham Palace was darn cool.. Wasn't expecting it to be quite as palatial as it was... lots of large extremely elegantly luxurious rooms with
science the family trellis http://www.eurekalert.org...s-nas020906.php A new, more robust analysis of recently derived human gene trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, shows three distinct major waves of human migration out of Africa instead of just two, and statistically refutes ñstrongly ñ the
science try it in loch ness http://www.eurekalert.org...t-oft013006.php A remote sensor system developed by Associate Professor Nicholas Makris of mechanical engineering, along with others at MIT, Northeastern University and the Naval Research Laboratory, allows scientists to track enormous fish populations, or shoals, as well as small schools, over a 10,000-square-kilometer area
bad The light not so fantastic http://www.timesonline.co...2022194,00.html The Times Online, 4 Feb Very annoying article full of utterly trite and pointless speculation about how some art might tap into 'deep-rooted' brain processes. I don't doubt that it might but this goes nowhere to proving it. Maybe
psycho multiple embedded Socrates following on from my earlier post, straight after reading mixing memory on Keil's work on our shallow knowledge, I happened to read chapter of Semantic Cognition by Rogers & McClelland (2004) that attempts to model our causal knowledge systems with a connectionist model. Except that it doesn'
bad don't try this at home i do not recommend attempting to eat a packet of crisps whilst wearing woollen gloves.
psycho INTELLIGENCE TEST?? This supposed INTELLIGENCE TEST is moderately diverting.. but certainly not very rigorous or intelligent. (far too much general knowledge required for one thing among many) 24 H in D -> 24 HOURS in a DAY 26 L of the A -> 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET etc. I&
psycho Wordsworth - A Character William Wordsworth on face perception and social cognition - A CharacterWilliam Wordsworth
science Mixing Memory on the Socrates principle http://mixingmemory.blogs...th-of-mind.html Mixing memory referring in his ever so learned way to what i more simply call the Socrates principle: on Mixing Memory The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates Problem with most of Socrates work is that he is actually Plato'
psycho Speak what you feel, not what you ought to say http://www.psychologicals...06/pr060125.cfm Current Directions in Psychological Science Now, this ain't necessarily so, but it sounds plausible and the researchers in questions have spent a lot of time in serious consideration of this question. Either way, I kinda wish i'd had a drama
psycho academic life causes absent-mindedness? truly beginning to feel like a real scientist now.. this week has conferences, talks (giving and receiving!), seminars, literature reviews, co-authoring a book review, journal clubs, participant testing, data analysis, and some even null results (the true sign of a real scientist) for good measure i get to spend a
science penguins Be mesons http://www.nature.com/phy...hts/6868-2.html Nature - Penguin picked up So now we know.. but what about that elephant?
science Physics Goals of BaBar http://polywww.in2p3.fr/babar/ph/ph.html The study of violation in B decays is the primary physics objective of BaBar[].Alamba^4betaalphaZ^0Z^0 That is as maybe but I am still in a state of uncertainty.. What do penguins have to do with Quantum Chromo Dynamics? And,
science Leonardo's Contribution to Neuroscience http://pevsnerlab.kennedy...N_2002_sans.pdf Leonardo da Vinci's contributions to neuroscience.Pevsner, J. (2002) Trends Neurosci. 2002 Apr;25(4):217-20. pith v.tr - To sever or destroy the spinal cord of, usually by inserting a needle into the vertebral canal.
science Leonardo Just finished short, slightly eccentrical book about Leonardo with lots of colourful plates and some occasionally interesting facts and quotations. I liked this one: "The life of Leonardo is extremely varied and undetermined, so that it seems he lives only for the day" Piero da Novellara and didn&
words Moore, Moorcock and more! Thanks to a tip on Neil Gaiman's blog, I am going to an evening with Alan Moore in conversation with Michael Moorcock at Blackwells, Charing Cross on 18th Jan. Of MM's massive output* I've only read the wonderful Mother London, but I the sequel
bad bad doughnut no cop there is something so unpleasant about a stale, soggy doughnut that it might even be worse than no doughnut at all. though, of course, i ate it all the same.
science Plasma and Ozone Yesterday, on my way home, partly inspired by reading more about Felix Hess, I bought a plasma globe. I have wanted one since childhood. Now that I am a bona-fide mad scientist, it is almost obligatory that I own one. It also brings closure on two pieces of personal history;
psycho neophilia I've always been keen on newness. Now I learn that what I thought was an enthusiasm might in fact be an addiction. JH Austin on endogenous endorphins: Novelty releases beta-endorphin into the brain. If humans respond anything like rats, beta-endorphin would begin to increase after only two minutes
psycho The Cute Factor - New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/20...nce/03cute.html Cute little article on cuteness cues, many cute lines.. "The human cuteness detector is set at such a low bar, researchers said, that it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof, and
life the Joy of a deformed crisp I have a very old friend who in all her many many years alive had never seen a double yolked egg. At the time she was overjoyed with her freak.. But she was most miffed when I told that thanks to the recent automatic candling advances one can now buy
