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November 20, 2012

4:00 PM | Could A Sonic Weapon Make Your Head Explode?

Can sound waves kill? Or just irritate the hell out of you? Wikimedia CommonsInfrasonic sound can have very unusual non-auditory effects on the body. But does it kill? There's an elevator in the Brown University Biomed building (hopefully fixed by now) that I've heard called "the elevator to hell," not because of destination but because there is a bent blade in the overhead fan. The elevator is typical of older models, a box 2 meters by 2 meters by 3 meters with requisite buzzing fluorescent, […]

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Psychology At the Movies: Essentialist Musings in Man of Steel

www.imdb.com Yesterday, my spouse and I dropped our newborn daughter off with Grandma and then popped over to the local theater to see this summer's much anticipated comic-book blockbuster Man of Steel. By any standard, Man of Steel is exceptionally light when it comes to philosophical musings: The plot is predictably linear--good guys fight bad guys who are trying to kill them. At first glance, it may seem like a stretch to write an entire blog entry (for a psychology blog) about the […]

Kraus MW & Keltner D (2013). Social Class Rank, Essentialism, and Punitive Judgment., Journal of personality and social psychology, PMID: 23713698

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Quantum-Dot Microscopy Method Allows to Improve Solar Cells

Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscopy technique that uses a process similar to how an old tube television produces a picture—cathodoluminescence—to image nanoscale features. Combining the best features of optical and scanning electron microscopy, the fast, versatile, and high-resolution technique allows scientists to view surface and subsurface features potentially as small as 10 nanometers in size. This technique […]

Yoon, H., Lee, Y., Bohn, C., Ko, S., Gianfrancesco, A., Steckel, J., Coe-Sullivan, S., Talin, A. & Zhitenev, N. (2013). High-resolution photocurrent microscopy using near-field cathodoluminescence of quantum dots, AIP Advances, 3 (6) 62112. DOI: 10.1063/1.4811275

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Nanog protein promotes the growth of cancer stem cells in head and neck cancer

A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center -- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James) has identified a biochemical pathway in cancer stem cells that is essential for promoting head and neck cancer.The study shows that a protein called Nanog, which is normally active in embryonic stem cells, promotes the growth of cancer stem cells in head and neck cancer. The findings provide information essential for […]

Xie, X., Piao, L., Cavey, G., Old, M., Teknos, T., Mapp, A. & Pan, Q. (2013). Phosphorylation of Nanog is essential to regulate Bmi1 and promote tumorigenesis, Oncogene, DOI: 10.1038/onc.2013.173

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Bombs and Brains

Great minds met to conceive the first atomic bomb. Now the atomic bomb has helped researchers confirm some long-held suspicions about the human brain. Up until the 1960s, it was a widely accepted belief that we are born with a finite number of neurons that last our entire life. In 1965, researchers presented the first […]

Spalding K., Bergmann O., Alkass K., Bernard S., Salehpour M., Huttner H., Boström E., Westerlund I., Vial C. & Buchholz B. & (2013). Dynamics of Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Adult Humans, Cell, 153 (6) 1219-1227. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.002

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Peter Suber’s Open Access book is now available under an open-access license

If you never got around to buying Peter Suber’s book about Open Access (OA) publishing [1] “for busy people”, you might be pleased to learn that it’s now available under an open-access license. Open Access is open access I'm happy to announce that my book on OA (Open Access, MIT Press… goo.gl/fb/CaInj— Peter Suber (@petersuber) June 18, […]

Clair, K. (2013). Kevin Michael Clair reviews Open Access, by Peter Suber, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 39 (1) 94. DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.017

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