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November 09, 2012

6:15 PM | Staten Island’s ‘Bluebelt’ doesn’t fight super-storms, but plays crucial role in managing excess rainfall

During an eerily foreshadowing talk I attended the week before Sandy came crashing ashore, New York City’s climate resilience advisor, Leah Cohen, assured the small attending audience that PlaNYC 2030, a tentative map for the city’s sustainable growth, outlined no such plans to “buy back” developed areas in the city—even those dangerously close to the [...]

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Video Tip of the Week: Canary Database for sentinels of human health

Recently we attended the Medical Library Association conference (#MLAnet13). Librarians are working so hard to wrangle information into usable forms, and to generate new connections among data types to reveal new information and leads for further studies. I ♥ librarians. In one of the sessions I attended on Medical Informatics, I heard several great talks. One [...]

Rabinowitz, P., Scotch, M. & Conti, L. (2010). Animals as Sentinels: Using Comparative Medicine To Move Beyond the Laboratory, ILAR Journal, 51 (3) 262-267. DOI: 10.1093/ilar.51.3.262

Rabinowitz, P., Gordon, Z., Holmes, R., Taylor, B., Wilcox, M., Chudnov, D., Nadkarni, P. & Dein, F. (2005). Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental Health Hazards: An Evidence-Based Analysis, EcoHealth, 2 (1) 26-37. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-004-0151-1

Rabinowitz, P., Cullen, M. & Lake, H. (1999). Wildlife as sentinels for human health hazards: a review of study designs, Journal of Environmental Medicine, 1 (4) 217-223. DOI: 10.1002/jem.33

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Down in the underground, scuds lose eyes but keep genes

When animals live caves full time, their descendents often lose their eyes. It has happened over and over and over and over again, in all different kinds of animals. But how this happens is not obvious. Stephen Jay Gould wrote that some people would use cave fish as an argument that “Lamarck must have been on to something” with his idea that acquired characteristics can be inherited. Well, no, that’s not that case, but it is a good example of how tricky thinking about losses can be. The […]

Carlini D.B., Satish S. & Fong D.W. (2013). Parallel reduction in expression, but no loss of functional constraint, in two opsin paralogs within cave populations of Gammarus minus (Crustacea: Amphipoda), BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13 (1) 89. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-89

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The mystery of the missing experiments

Can experimental findings look too good to be true? Last week I wrote a blog post about some experiments showing a counterintuitive finding regarding how the need to urinate affects decision making. It’s since been brought to my attention that these experiments (along with dozens of others) have ...Read More

Francis G. (2012). The Psychology of Replication and Replication in Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7 (6) 585-594. DOI: 10.1177/1745691612459520

Francis G. (2012). Publication bias and the failure of replication in experimental psychology, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19 (6) 975-991. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0322-y

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We Didn't Know This about Iron Before

It's amazing that we're still discovering things about our own planet at a time when we have the technology to explore planets other than our own. A study that was published in Nature Geoscience last week found that iron is weaker than previously thought. What's interesting about this is that we didn't know before this experiment how iron acted at high pressures, like those found in Earth's core.What we know about the composition of the center of the Earth is just made from inference. The […]

Gleason A.E. & Mao W.L. (2013). Strength of iron at core pressures and evidence for a weak Earth’s inner core, Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1808

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The Mental Health of Lonely Marijuana Users

Mr. Lonely 1Does Smoking Pot Offer Relief to the Lonely? A new paper by the original Tylenol and social pain researchers claims that it does (Deckman et al., 2013). Let's take a closer look.Comfortably Numb: Marijuana Use Reduces Social Pain, Research FindsMarijuana use buffers people from experiencing social pain, according to research published online on May 14 in Social Psychological and Personality Science."Prior work has shown that the analgesic acetaminophen, which acts indirectly […]

Deckman, T., DeWall, C., Way, B., Gilman, R. & Richman, S. (2013). Can Marijuana Reduce Social Pain?, Social Psychological and Personality Science, DOI: 10.1177/1948550613488949

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