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Anatomical Cross-Sections Made with Quilled Paper by Lisa Nilsson | Colossal

Anatomical Cross-Sections Made with Quilled Paper by Lisa Nilsson | Colossal.

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Alligators, Crocodiles and Babies?

          Fake Science : What’s The Difference Between The Alligator And Crocodile? This was news to me. And I wrote a fair bit of about alligators, crocodiles and babies in my PhD (with a little help … Continue reading

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A skill skull made of brains.

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Horizontal version of the leaning tower illusion

The leaning tower illusion won the VSS Illusion of the year contest in 2007. Below is horizontal version of  the same thing. These two photo’s are completely identical.. Bloody hell, can’t believe that these are the same… « Richard Wiseman’s … Continue reading

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xmas tip – looking at kittens improves your chance of winning Operation (or Buckaroo)

Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness. Emotion. 2009 Apr;9(2):282-6. Sherman GD, Haidt J, Coan JA. Infantile physical morphology—marked by its “cuteness”—is thought to be a potent elicitor of caregiving, yet little is known about how cuteness may shape immediate behavior. … Continue reading

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Gaydar – Fitted as standard

http://mindblog.dericbown…t=Google Reader Scientists have previously shown that everyone’s got gaydar and now they show we’ve all got lesdar as well. From the random samples section of the Nov. 27 issue of Science: Can you guess a woman’s sexual orientation just … Continue reading

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Blood cools brain not other way around.

http://brainstimulant.blo…modynamics.html Rather tickled to discover that contrary to the belief of some ancient greeks, it seems that the brain isn’t an organ for cooling the blood: Increasing [cerebral blood flow] in a specific deep brain region can cause a resultant … Continue reading

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I don’t feel your pain, Johnny Foreigner

http://www.jneurosci.org/…ract/29/26/8525 The pain matrix including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) mediates not only first person pain experience but also empathy for others’ pain. It remains unknown, however, whether empathic neural responses of the pain matrix are modulated by racial in-group/out-group … Continue reading

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Babies have the answers

http://seedmagazine.com/c…e/to_be_a_baby/ The great thing about being a philosopher is that you can write any old rubbish and speculate wildly without the need to support what you say with real data. The same can also be said for psychologists writing books … Continue reading

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Science suggests democracy is an illusion.

The BPS blog has a good summary of a study that found that what political candidates looks like could have a strong influence on whether they are elected. John Antonakis and Olaf Dalgas presented photos of pairs of competing candidates … Continue reading

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Science proves religion is a crutch

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111…80.2009.02305.x Michael Inzlicht, Ian McGregor, Jacob B. Hirsh, Kyle Nash (2009) Neural Markers of Religious Conviction Psychological Science Many people derive peace of mind and purpose in life from their belief in God. For others, however, religion provides unsatisfying answers. … Continue reading

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Taking a Toddler to the zoo – again

In the very first days of my PhD, I tried to explain the difference between how philosophers study concepts (mainly by looking things up in dictionaries) and how psychologists might go about it by running experiments, such as taking a … Continue reading

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visions of psychology

At the risk of turning this blog into an inefficient mimeograph of Mind Hacks, I have share yet another of Vaughn’s finds with you.. This is just one image in a sequence of 83 by Will Lion. He combines striking … Continue reading

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you spin me right round

Hopefully your new year’s hangovers have now passed because following hot on the heels of the freaky reversing ballerina.. comes another ambiguous spinner.. click on the image to see the movie of a point light figure walking in a circle.. … Continue reading

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You’re the tops..

The clincial psychologists ‘bible’ – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders runs to 886 pages listing 297 things that could be wrong with your noggin. There’s another version in the pipeline and the chances are it will be … Continue reading

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