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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 from Ogden Nash).

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A skill skull made of brains.

A couple of years ago Noah Scalin decided to make a years worth of skull artworks. That's 365 days of skulls. If you've got the time, it's worth looking through the whole project because it is an artwork in its own right. Needless to

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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 Blog. Here's the explanation

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

Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness. via neurocritic

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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

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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 decrease in brain temperature

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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 relationship.

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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 for a

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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 in the 2002 French parliamentary elections to hundreds of Swiss

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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 paper/a>

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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 toddler to the zoo. Here's the original post.

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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 quotes and summaries of suprising research with even

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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.. as before, you ought to see the figure

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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 even longer. It's enough

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Thesis - Final Remarks

At the very beginning of this doctorate, the very first book I bought was Greg Murphy’s introductory The Big Book of Concepts (Murphy, 2002). At the time, I was charmed and delighted by the title. I could not imagine a more appropriate title for anyone embarking on any Ph.

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Reasons to be cheerful.. scientifically validated!

http://www.spring.org.uk/...de-2-minute.php It takes just two minutes a week to make yourself happier. All you have to do is sit down make a list of five things you are grateful for and you'll be 25% happier. Jeremy at the always brilliant PsychBlog summarizes

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Psychology is hard.

"Psychology has the bizarre quality as an academic field that it's both the hardest and the easiest thing to do. To really explain anything about how people behave is just hard. But to almost explain it in a way that's probably wrong - that'

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The Law of Monkey Brains

http://www.pointlesswaste...nkeysphere.html That's the whole thing, right here. Life on Earth, in a nutshell. We are hard-wired to have a drastic double standard for the people inside and out of our Monkeysphere and those outside make up 99.999% of the world's population.

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null hypothesis nicely supported and other reasons to change your mind

Always good at asking questions the Edge has started the year by asking a whole bunch of sciencetists to think again. More specifically, to describe what they had changed their mind about (and why). Here's Susan Blackmore: I decided, with splendid, youthful over-confidence, to become a parapsychologist and

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It's not exactly rocket science.

Let's start the year with this colourful and gory video of someone undergoing brain surgery. the bit that gets me is how the exposed brain pulsates in gentle protest at the  poking and prodding. It's almost as if it is alive. [video:youtube:LJxPLNiRqnA] via retrospectacle

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Sci Tat

Carl Zimmer is collecting science tattoos. So I sent him our Necker cubes. Bit miffed but not surprised that he chose the more photogenic of us to picture on his site. Meanwhile, i am thinking of a way to work the stimuli from my statistical learning experiment into a new

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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

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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

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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